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It is surrounded by steep (up to 23°) hills rising to 900 m (3,000 ft) above the lake surface, and itself is steep-sided, with a maximum depth of 90 m (300 ft) in the middle and an extensive shelf 60 m (200 ft) deep at its north-western end. Because its steep catchment is entirely forested with no major watercourses—none of its small tributaries are longer than 3 km (1.9 mi)—the lake has escaped being filled in by large debris-carrying rivers.
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bridge, but there is no road leading to the lake shore. The only land access is by the Lake Ellery Track, an easy 30-minute walking track beside Ellery Stream, the lake's only outfall. The track leads to a picnic spot beside the south-eastern shore of the lake. In 1998 maintenance of the track ceased
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Burmeister and Stafford Ranges, and is a deep channel carved out by an arm of the former Arawhata Glacier in the last ice age. It is long and narrow—less than 1 km (0.62 mi) wide at its widest point—and has a surface area of 38 km (15 sq mi).
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to the north; these record not only the date of major earthquakes but which section of the fault ruptured. The sediment cores from Lake Ellery record major ruptures of the South
Westland section of the Alpine fault around the years
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Jamie D. Howarth; Sean J. Fitzsimons; Richard J. Norris; Robert
Langridge; Marcus J. Vandergoes (25 November 2015). "A 2000 yr rupture history for the Alpine fault derived from Lake Ellery, South Island, New Zealand".
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described Lake Ellery's outflow as "one of the most beautiful, tranquil and interesting sections of creek in South
Westland."
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Greaney described the forests around Lake Ellery as "reverberating with an unbroken roll of enthralling melody".
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1497:Troyte River
1487:Tōtara River
1407:Poerua River
1377:Oneone River
1342:Ngatau River
1312:Martyr River
1297:Jacobs River
1227:Harman River
1222:Hapuka River
1212:Hacket River
1182:Edison River
1177:Duncan River
1162:Donald River
1132:Clarke River
1117:Butler River
1102:Bettne River
1092:Barlow River
1030:Mount Tasman
1020:Mount Sefton
990:Mount Graham
944:Butler Range
918:Lake Paringa
908:Lake Moeraki
888:Lake Kaniere
872:
821:Awarua Point
685:Copland Pass
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325:silver beech
319:, with some
310:
292:Lake Paringa
284:Alpine Fault
281:
277:
266:
246:
229:Alpine fault
225:South Island
212:
211:
187:Surface area
88:South Island
18:
1592:Wills River
1532:Waita River
1517:Waiho River
1462:Taipo River
1442:Spoon River
1437:Smyth River
1422:Ruera River
1402:Perth River
1392:Ōtoko River
1387:Ōtira River
1367:Okuru River
1337:Mungo River
1327:Morse River
1307:Maori River
1252:Jerry River
1207:Haast River
1197:Gorge River
1172:Drake River
1152:Cropp River
1112:Burke River
1072:Adams River
1049:River flats
995:Mount Haast
965:Mount Adams
928:Lake Wahapo
883:Lake Ianthe
873:Lake Ellery
780:Fox Glacier
744:Otira Gorge
711:Jackson Bay
445:Jackson Bay
213:Lake Ellery
171:Max. length
120: /
108:168°39′22″E
95:Coordinates
61:Lake Ellery
24:Lake Ellery
1607:Categories
1502:Tuke River
1457:Styx River
1427:Ship Creek
1282:Lord River
1242:Hope River
1217:Hall River
1202:Gunn River
1187:Fork River
1097:Barn River
1025:Silberhorn
1005:La Perouse
878:Lake Gault
690:Haast Pass
470:References
221:West Coast
195:Max. depth
179:Max. width
105:44°03′11″S
84:West Coast
1192:Fox River
958:Mountains
863:Abel Lake
816:Abut Head
809:Headlands
706:Bruce Bay
618:Q96463414
610:0016-7606
527:Q98762244
519:29806566M
317:kahikatea
235:Geography
763:Glaciers
614:Wikidata
523:Wikidata
499:(2017).
458:See also
404:P. carbo
217:Westland
86:region,
76:Location
840:Islands
590:Bibcode
429:fantail
219:on the
1065:Rivers
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441:kererū
439:, and
421:tomtit
372:, and
337:mānuka
333:manoao
327:, and
321:kāmahi
374:mataī
249:Haast
699:Bays
606:ISSN
553:ISBN
505:ISBN
393:kākā
349:and
329:miro
315:and
313:rimu
301:A.D.
294:and
598:doi
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368:),
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