Talk:Lake Taupō

message: Can someone put in a geo.position spot roughly for Taupo?
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Use Taupo township (at the north end of the lake), which is 38.41S 176.7E
Stuartyeates 14:03, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Coordinates

message: The location pic seems to have broken the page layout, a lot of whitespace is showing between the second and third section. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.118.190.86 (talk • contribs) .
:Now fixed, at least in my browser. -- Avenue 08:04, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Layout broken

message: The text regarding the effects of a Taupo eruption on the Maori and Japanese cannot possibly refer to the Oruanui eruption since this took place some 26,500 years ago.  I believe that this text should be moved to the paragraph discussing the 181 AD eruption . . . I would have performed this edit, but I couldn't locate corroborating support after a quick search this morning.  Can someone else confirm that this text move is warranted?
Myasuda 13:29, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't confirm the Maori reference, but it is almost certainly untrue as the eruption was before recorded history, let alone the Maori arrival in NZ. I went ahead and removed the Japanese reference as it's irrelevant to the article anyway. --Tireoghain2 10:26, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Agree. --Bender235 21:54, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Apparently misplaced text on Taupo eruption

message: What is the source for the date (AD 181) of the most recent eruption?  And what is the range of uncertainty of the date?  It seems to me that the evidence for this date ought to be cited in the article.  Richwales 04:30, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: CE is regarded more appropriate terminology. In any case the 180 CE date is no longer accepted with academic rigour in geological circles and appears to be related to a Northern hemisphere event as when postulated, the techniques did not exist to analyse the actual ice core ash deposit and relate it to other samples from volcano of interest each of which tends to have a unique signal. The New Zealand dating record is now used to date Antarctic icecores back to the the Oruanui eruption. ChaseKiwi (talk) 13:31, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of last eruption (AD 181)? 

message: The reference to the presence of Short finned Eels in Lake Taupo is incorrect, and is fact one of the more unusual facts about the lake.
Nztayls 09:10, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Presence of Eels within Lake Taupo

message: Lake depth varies depending on source. I dont know where the depth used came from but other depths found at
*http://www.luxuryescapes.co.nz/taupo.html - 164m
*http://www.ilec.or.jp/database/oce/oce-01.html - 164m - International Lake Environment Committee
*http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/Site/publish/Journals/nzjgg/1995/42.aspx - 185m
*http://www.laketauponz.com/lifestyles/business/taupo-facts-figures.html - 164m
*http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/584374/Lake-Taupo - 159m
Gosh, which one to use.
:Several sources do seem to cluster around 163-164 m. Here are a few more:
:*http://www.mightyriverpower.co.nz/Generation/LakeLevels/LakeLevelGraphs/MRPTaupo.pdf - 162.8 m
:*http://www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/ser/snapshot-lake-water-quality-nov06/html/page4.html - 163 m
:*http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Gov01_09Rail-t1-body-d9.html - 534 ft (=162.76 m)
:The last one dates back to 1927.
:Some of the variation might be due to variation in lake levels — outflows are managed by Mighty River Power to keep the lake level within their resource consent limits of 355.85–367.25 m above sea level — or even the 0.5 m ground deformation that's been observed in recent decades from seismic unrest. But there's another depth near our current value of 186 m here: http://www.taupofortomorrow.co.nz/fishery/freshwater/lakes/ (186.84 m below chart datum of 355.85 m altitude), and anecdotal support here: http://www.minerals.co.nz/jago/press_releases.html. It seems that researchers were able to take a mini-submarine down to view geothermal vents at a depth of 184 m, in an area called "Les' Hole" - a deep spot discovered in the early 1990s by Deputy Harbourmaster Les Porter. This would explain why we have two groups of depth measurements, one around 163 m and the other around 186 m; the first group don't account for the recent discovery. So I think it's best to stick with our current figure, or something similar. It's probably worth addressing the discrepancy in a footnote, though. -- Avenue (talk) 14:10, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Unlike depth, coastline length is not well defined (see coastline paradox), so I don't think we can expect complete agreement among sources. Here's another source giving a length for the littoral zone of 161 km. -- Avenue (talk) 00:17, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: And another saying "over 170 km". -- Avenue (talk) 16:48, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Lake Depth

message: Substituted at 21:35, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

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message: I note that according to the New Zealand Gazetteer, there is no official name for Lake Taupo. I suggest if anyone is keen to have the name changed to Lake Taupō, this should go through a formal move proposal. Schwede66 20:46, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: If the common name for the town is Taupō, I find it incredibly unlikely that the common name for the lake is not also Taupō. — HTGS (talk) 09:37, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I would be surprised, too. All I’m saying is that it won’t be uncontroversial. To avoid moving the article back and forth, a formal discussion should be had. Schwede66 16:11, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

text: The common name for the town (by any reasonable definition of the word "common") is still "Taupo".  And the common name for the lake is still "Lake Taupo".  But the reason why the (English-language) Wikipedia page for the town is titled "Taupō" is because of our WP:NCNZ policy, which states that if a place has a LINZ-official name, then that name is used, even if it's not the common name.  The "Lake Taupo" page should be not be moved until LINZ makes "Lake Taupō" (or something else) the lake's 'official' name.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.212.111 (talk) 15:29, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Zealand Gazetteer