Lake Roxburgh

Lake Roxburgh

Location	Central Otago District, Otago Region, South Island
Coordinates	45°28′16″S 169°19′41″E / 45.471°S 169.328°E / -45.471; 169.328Coordinates: 45°28′16″S 169°19′41″E / 45.471°S 169.328°E / -45.471; 169.328
Type	Artificial lake
Primary inflows	Clutha River
Primary outflows	Clutha River
Basin countries	New Zealand

Surface area	6 km²

Lake Roxburgh is an artificial lake, created by the Roxburgh Dam, the earliest of the large hydroelectric projects in the southern South Island of New Zealand. It lies on the Clutha River, some 160 kilometres from Dunedin. It covers an area of some 6 km², and extends for nearly 30 kilometres towards the town of Alexandra. The town of Roxburgh lies five kilometres south of the Dam.

Clutha River

Source: Southern Alps—Flows into: Pacific Ocean

Administrative areas	Otago Region Queenstown–Lakes District Central Otago District Clutha District

Towns and settlements (upstream to downstream)	Wanaka Albert Town Luggate Lowburn Cromwell Clyde Alexandra Roxburgh Hydro Roxburgh Teviot Ettrick Millers Flat Beaumont Tuapeka Mouth Clydevale Balclutha Stirling Kaitangata

Major tributaries (upstream to downstream by confluence)	Makarora River Matukituki River Hāwea River Cardrona River Lindis River Kawarau River Manuherikia River Teviot River Tuapeka River Pomahaka River Waitahuna River

Lakes in catchment (upstream to downstream by location or tributary)	Lake Wanaka Lake Hāwea Lake Dunstan Lake Wakatipu Lake Roxburgh Lake Tuakitoto

Islands in catchment (upstream to downstream by location or tributary)	Harwich Island Pigeon Island Pig Island Inch Clutha

Other features (upstream to downstream)	Old Cromwell Bridge Cromwell Gorge Clyde Dam Alexandra bridges Roxburgh Dam Kelso Balclutha Road Bridge

Longest New Zealand rivers	1: Waikato 2: Clutha / Mata-Au 3: Whanganui 4: Taieri 5: Rangitikei 6: Mataura 7: Waiau (Southland) 8: Clarence 9: Waitaki 10: Oreti

Towns and communities in the Central Otago District

Alexandra Ward	Alexandra Bridge Hill Butcher's Gully Conroys Gully Galloway Letts Gully Springvale

Cromwell Ward	Bannockburn Bendigo Cornish Point Cromwell Lindis Pass Lowburn Mount Pisa Northburn Pisa Moorings Queensberry Tarras

Earnscleugh-Manuherikia Ward	Becks Blackmans Blackstone Hill Chatto Creek Clyde Earnscleugh Fruitlands Lauder Little Valley Omakau Ophir Poolburn Saint Bathans

Maniototo Ward	Danseys Pass Idaburn Kyeburn Kyeburn Diggings Naseby Oturehua Paerau Patearoa Ranfurly Waipiata Wedderburn

Roxburgh Ward	Coal Creek Flat Dumbarton Ettrick Lake Roxburgh Millers Flat Raes Junction Roxburgh Teviot

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