Photographic prints and image files of Manapouri, New Zealand

Manapouri Region, Fiordland, New Zealand. This gallery includes images from the Keppler Track, Te Anau and Lake Monowai.

Lake Manapouri, Fiordland.

Te Anau. Kakapo Road. Fiordland.

Rakatu Wetlands. Waiau River. The Waiau Fisheries and Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Trust. Southland. New Zealand.

Manapouri Power Station. Fiordland.

Manapōuri Power Station is an underground hydroelectric power station on the western arm of Lake Manapouri in Fiordland National Park.  At 854 MW installed capacity it is the largest hydroelectric power station in New Zealand. The station is noted for the controversy and environmental protests by the Save Manapouri Campaign against raising the level of Lake Manapouri to increase the station's hydraulic head, which galvanised New Zealanders and were one of the foundations of the New Zealand environmental movement. The power station machine hall was excavated from solid granite rock 200 metres below the level of Lake Manapōuri. Two tailrace tunnels take the water that passes through the power station to Deep Cove, a branch of Doubtful Sound, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.  Access to the power station is via a two-kilometre vehicle-access tunnel which spirals down from the surface, or a lift that drops 193 metres (633 ft) down from the control room above the lake. There is no road access into the site; a regular boat service ferries power station workers in 35 km across the lake from Pearl Harbour, located in the town of Manapouri at the southeast corner of the lake. Tourst accces to the power station was closed in 2018. Source; Wikipedia.

Lake Monowai. Fiordland.

Keppler Track, Rainbow Reach, Shallow Bay, Spirit Lake

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