Lake Rotoiti

Lake Rotoiti, previously additionally called Lake Arthur, is a lake within the Tasman Region of New Zealand. It is a vast mountain lake within the borders of Nelson Lakes National Park. The lake is fed through the Travers River, water from the lake flows into the Buller River. The lake is surrounded by means of Beech woodland and is eighty two metres deep. Saint Arnaud is a small network at the northern give up of the lake. The first European to see the lake become John Sylvanus Cotterell on 18 January 1843. Thomas Brunner and Charles Heaphy reached the lake in November 1843, and Heaphy named it Lake Arthur after Captain Arthur Wakefield, however the Maori name remained.

For a few years the lake shaped part of John Kerr of Nelson's, cherished Lake Station - along with Mt Robert. Kerr,drowned there with many believing his son Robert to be accountable. The lake and Mt Robert reverted to the crown after mismanagement by way of Kerr's aforementioned son Robert in the years following his loss of life.