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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Lakes

Lakes.

In the number, size and beauty of its lakes the Auckland Province has certainly very great advantages over any other part of the North Island. In fact, the Auckland lakes, hot and cold, constitute the most remarkable feature of the Colony. Lake Taupo Moana (commonly called Lake Taupo), twenty-five miles in its greatest length by a maximum breadth of eighteen miles, and a depth of nearly a hundred fathoms, is the largest lake in the Colony, and is very beautiful, especially on its western shores, which are broken and precipitous. Other principal lakes are Waikaremoana, Rotorua, Rotoiti, Tarawera, and Waikare (near Rangiriri), which is navigably connected with the Waikato river. Smaller lakes to the number of about five and twenty, include Omapere (in the Bay of Islands district), Whangapae (near Waikato and also connected with the Waikato river), Okataina, Roto Mai, Roto Ehu, Rerewhakaitu and Rotokahi (all near Rotorua), and Takapuna (near Devonport, Auckland). Roto Aira, though only five or six miles south of Lake Taupo, is in the Wellington Province, and Waikaremoana is closely connected with Hawke's Bay.