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                               Mirror Lake- Lake Matheson

Lake Matheson «Mirror Lake» is a very popular destination among tourists and, perhaps, the most beautiful lake in the South Island of New Zealand. This lake has become famous thanks to its unique features reflected in the water surface any surrounding objects with great precision. During this lake was a different name, informal, more appropriate in the sense - «Mirror Lake», or Mirror Lake.

                                                                                                                                 Origin of the Lake

A relatively recent (by the standards of our planet, of course), about 15 thousand years ago, Fox Glacier gradually began to melt, thereby sliding to the mountains and protachivaya its colossal weight of different kinds of grooves on its way. One of the recesses and thereby became a lake Matheson. Glacier "left" on, leaving a hefty chunk of ancient ice formed in a bowl of the lake. To help you understand the magnitude of the events taking place then, give the dimensions: Mirror Lake has a length of about 600 meters, width - 200 meters.