Editing Lake Taupō (section)

{{Short description|New Zealand's largest lake}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2013}}
{{Infobox body of water
| name               = Lake Taupō
| other_name         = Lake Taupo
| image              = Lake Taupo.jpg
| caption            = 
| alt                = Lake Taupō
| pushpin_map        = New Zealand#North Island
| pushpin_map_alt    = Location of Lake Taupō
| image_bathymetry   = 
| caption_bathymetry = 
|image_map           = {{Infobox mapframe |area_km2=616|point=none|shape-fill-opacity=0|stroke-width=1}}
| location           = [[Taupō District]], [[Waikato]] region, [[North Island]]
| coords             = {{Coord|38|48|25|S|175|54|28|E|region:NZ_type:waterbody|display=inline,title}}
| type               = [[Volcanic crater lake|Crater lake]], [[oligotroph]]ic
| inflow             = [[Waitahanui River]], [[Tongariro River]], [[Tauranga Taupō River]]
| outflow            = [[Waikato River]]
| catchment          = {{convert|3487|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
| basin_countries    = [[New Zealand]]
| length             = {{convert|46|km|mi|abbr=on}}
| width              = {{convert|33|km|mi|abbr=on}}
| area               = {{convert|616|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
| depth              = {{convert|110|m|ft|abbr=on}}
| max-depth          = {{convert|186|m|ft|abbr=on}}
| volume             = {{convert|67.76|km3|cumi|abbr=on}}
| residence_time     = 10.5 years
| shore              = {{convert|193|km|mi|abbr=on}}
| elevation          = {{convert|356|m|ft|abbr=on}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dia.govt.nz/Lake-Taupo-Lake-Levels|title=Lake levels|publisher=[[Department of Internal Affairs (New Zealand)|Te Tari Taiwhenua {{!}} Department of Internal Affairs]]|access-date=14 January 2020}}</ref>
| islands            = [[Motutaiko Island]] (11&nbsp;[[hectares|ha]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doc.govt.nz/getting-involved/volunteer-join-or-start-a-project/start-or-fund-a-project/funding/nga-whenua-rahui/nga-whenua-rahui-fund/featured-projects/motutaiko-island/|title=Motutaiko Island: Current Nga Whenua Rahui and Matauranga Kura Taiao projects|publisher=Department of Conservation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304231419/http://www.doc.govt.nz/getting-involved/volunteer-join-or-start-a-project/start-or-fund-a-project/funding/nga-whenua-rahui/nga-whenua-rahui-fund/featured-projects/motutaiko-island/|archive-date=4 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Cussen | first1 = Laurence | author-link = Laurence Cussen | year = 1887 | title = Notes on the Physiography and Geology of the King Country | url = http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_20/rsnz_20_00_006340.html | journal = Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand | volume = 20 | pages = 317–332 }} See [http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_20/rsnz_20_00_006460.html Lake Taupō], pp 328–331</ref>
| cities             = 
| native_name        ={{plainlist}}
*{{langx|mi|Taupō-nui-a-Tia}}
*{{Lang|Mi|Taupōmoana}}{{endplainlist}}
| etymology          = From {{lang|mi|Taupō-nui-a-Tia}}, [[Māori language|Māori]] for "great cloak of [[Tia (Māori explorer)|Tia]]"
}}

'''Lake Taupō''' (also spelled '''Taupo'''; {{langx|mi|Taupō-nui-a-Tia}} or {{Lang|Mi|Taupōmoana}}) is a large [[volcanic crater lake|crater lake]] in [[New Zealand]]'s [[North Island]], located in the [[caldera]] of [[Taupō Volcano]].  The lake is the namesake of the town of [[Taupō]], which sits on a bay in the lake's northeastern shore. With a surface area of {{cvt|616|km2}}, it is the [[List of lakes of New Zealand#Largest|largest lake by surface area]] in [[New Zealand]], and the second largest [[freshwater lake]] by surface area in geopolitical [[Oceania]] after [[Lake Murray (Papua New Guinea)|Lake Murray]] in [[Papua New Guinea]]. [[Motutaiko Island]] lies in the southeastern area of the lake.