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Lake Wanaka is located in New Zealand’s southern island in the middle of the Otago Lake area. This lake is a result of glaciation or glacial erosion, which is the carving and shaping of land beneath a glacier (condense frozen ice – a massive amount). The glacier used to come all the way out to the town of Wanaka, where Lake Wanaka ends. The retreating glacier then formed the lake as it moved back and melted. The glacier had carved out the entire lake and as a result of it moving back and melting, it slowly filled the area it had carved out with its own run off/melted ice. It is estimated that the lake was created during a glacier retreat about 10,000 years ago.

The Otiran glacier is what carved Lake Wanaka. The basin that Lake Wanaka lies in was carved by the advances/recessions of the glacial systems that rose along the main divide between Mt. Aspiring and the Hunter River. The lake is about 928 feet above sea level and at its deepest point it is over 1000 feet. The lake is 27 miles long and only 6.2 miles wide, its so long and not as wide because of the glacier path that carved it out . The name Wanaka is an altered form of Oanaka, which means “place of Anaka.” There was an old Maori chief who the lake was named after, Anaka. The outlet of the lake thousands of years ago became full of silt forming a moraine that eventually closed off the outlet of the lake, creating what we know as Lake Wanaka.

I found this information on the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.