Lake Pupuke is a freshwater lake occupying a volcanic crater between the suburbs of Takapuna and Milford on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. Located less than 500 m distance from the sea at one point, it has a circumference of around 6km and reaches about 60m in depth. It is popular with picnickers, paddlers, rowers, yachtsman, divers and wildfowl and there is a café adjacent to the old pumphouse. The increasing popularity has led to recent concern over water quality; albeit, housing situated on the shores of Lake Pupuke is expensive. A man-made lake in Keukenhof, Netherlands A lake is a body of water or other liquid of considerable size surrounded by land. ... Takapuna or Takapuna Beach as the local business association would like it to be known as, is located in the northern North Island of New Zealand. ... Milford is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealands largest city. ... Schematic map of Auckland. ... Coffeehouse in Damascus // A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or cafe (also spelled as café from the French, Spanish, and Portuguese or caffè from the Italian) shares some of the characteristics of a bar, and some of the characteristics of a restaurant. ... Water quality is the chemical and physical characterization of water. ...

Other similar craters in the Auckland Volcanic Field were either buried by later eruptions, or breached by erosion as rainwater collected and overflowed the edge of the crater. Lake Pupuke remains a lake because water can escape through cracks in lava flows reaching under the crater wall, creating a series of freshwater springs along the beaches between Takapuna and Milford. The Auckland volcanic field is a monogenetic volcanic field on the North Island of New Zealand. ...

Coordinates: 36.780115° S 174.766184° E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...