Unusual blue green colour of the waters of Lake Pukaki on the South Island New Zealand. Lake Pukaki is the largest of the three alpine lakes

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Lake Pukaki is unique in the fact of it's unusual colour which is caused by glacial flour( fine silt caused by the glacier grinding the rocks to a fine silt) mixing with the blue waters of the lake.

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Size: 5953px × 3252px
Location: Lake Pukaki largest of the 3 inland lakes of the South Island New Zealand
Photo credit: © Guido Bainat / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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