Blue Lake (Rotomairewhenua in Māori) is a small fresh water lake in Nelson Lakes National Park, in the northern reaches of New Zealand's Southern Alps. In a study conducted in 2011, researchers ...

This lake has world's clearest water!, If you are in love with the outdoors and nature and are looking for something offbeat, this New Zealand lake is for you. It is famed for being to the world's ...

Don't deny your back to work blues; instead, be inspired and seek out these places to see unbelievably blue water around Aotearoa New Zealand. Advertisement Advertise with NZME.

Scientific tests carried out in 2011 by New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) showed Blue Lake to be the clearest natural body of fresh water known to man.

Rotomairewhenua or Blue Lake in New Zealand is the world's clearest lake. (Image: Getty) There are some lakes so beautiful that they hardly seem real.

The researchers who recently discovered a population of blue whales in New Zealand are learning more about the links between the whales, their prey and ocean conditions that are changing as the ...

Herewith, an option for the next northern winter: stunning Lake Tekapo on the south island of New Zealand. Lake Tekapo gets its turquoise hue from "rock flour," also known as glacial flour.

Then there are those few, pristine bodies of water that remain clean and crystal clear. The cleanest among them, according to a new study by A-Z Animals, is Lake George in the Adirondacks.

Little blue penguins were a previously abundant species in New Zealand. In recent years, more and more of the tiny seabirds have been showing up dead. Photo: Andrea Geiss (Shutterstock) On a ...

The outbreak killed four people and sickened 5,000. New Zealand’s waterways face more threats that just pastoral farming, however. Earlier this year, DairyNZ CEO Tim Mackle argued that dairy farmers ...

New Zealand’s Lake Manapōuri is often described as the cleanest lake in the world due to its crystal clear water fed by melting glaciers that carved the lake, as well as yearly snow melt. Now ...

Discover New Zealand's bluest water at nine beautiful destinations.