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TAKE CONTROL OF OUR LIVE CAMERA

Check out our live VIDEOCAM. Take control of our camera for 90 seconds and tell it what you want to look at. Watch while the camera responds to your commands.
A maximum of 10 viewers can view the video page at any one time. If the page fails to load, please try again soon.

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This camera is 1010m above sea level and 300 metres above Lake Tekapo.
Due to the higher altitude, the camera may experience obscuration by
cloud while the lake and village remain clear below.

A series of views around Lake Tekapo. Updates are triggered when particular views are selected on the videocam.

This image is updated every 5 minutes during daylight hours.
The image randomly captures the view the videocam is looking at during the update time.
Images may occasionally appear blurred if the camera happens to be panning as the image is captured, or if high winds are present while a large amount of 'zoom' is in use.
View examples are shown below.

Camera supplied and installed by Snowgrass Solutions

TAKE CONTROL OF OUR LIVE CAMERA

Check out our new videocam. Take control of our camera for 90 seconds and tell it what you want to look at. Watch while the camera responds to your commands.
A maximum of 10 viewers can view the video page at any one time. If the page fails to load, please try again soon.

> View the camera...

Some of the views the webcam is capable of displaying, weather permitting.
West Looking towards Tasman Valley with Ben Ohau range beyond.	Tasman Valley Zoomed in view of Tasman Valley vicinity with Mt Sefton	Lake Alexandrina The head of Lake Alexandrina, including the settlement.
North West Lake Alexandrina with Cass Valley and Joseph Range beyond.	Mount Cook peak Only visible above the Joseph Range, Mount Cook is often obscured by cloud.	Church of the Good Shepherd A zoomed view of the church and its car park, on the bank of the Tekapo River.
North East Lake Tekapo, Motuariki Island and the Two Thumb Range beyond.	Cass Valley The Cass Valley beyond Lake Alexandrina.	Boat ramp at entrance to river A zoomed view of the boat ramp at the entrance to the Tekapo River.
East Mount Edward looking across Lake Tekapo	Godley & Macaulay Valleys A zoomed in view of the Godley and Macaulay Valleys at the head of Lake Tekapo.	Tekapo village A view of the Lake Tekapo village.
South Tekapo Village with Hakataramea Pass beyond	Motuariki Island Motuariki Island and the Two Thumb range. Roundhill Ski Area can be observed on the dome directly above the island.	Tekapo village centre A zoomed in view of the Lake Tekapo village centre.
	Two Thumb Range A zoomed in section of the Two Thumb Range with the lake in the foreground. Great lake reflections in still weather.	Lake level monitoring station Meridian Energy's lake level monitoring station. Station is only surrounded by water when the lake is over 75% full.
	Mount John walkway Some of the world's best scenery can be seen from the Mount John Walkway that passes around the summit.	Wind direction indicator Wind shadowing in a West or Sou-west wind results in an erratic response when blowing from that direction.
	Tekapo Saddle Tekapo Saddle is occasionally 'choked' with cloud, indicating the east coast is clouded in with an Easterly wind.

View the webcam archive for a selection of historic images
Click here to view the collection.

It is Spring in Lake Tekapo, New Zealand

Installation of this camera was made possible with the assistance of,

The Rayward family - Lake Tekapo • Alan Gilmore and Pam Kilmartin - Lake Tekapo • Air Safaris - Lake Tekapo • Trevor Edmonston Builder - Fairlie • Nigel Blair Contracting - Fairlie • Firth Industries - Fairlie • Ocean Electronics Ltd - Christchurch • M.T. Marine (Engineering) - Lyttelton • Laser Electrical - Amberley

Tekapo Tourism Ltd thanks Canterbury University's Mt John in allowing the camera to be sited close to one of their buildings.
For more information on Mt John observatory you can visit their information page on this site. Click here.

It is only through the support of our sponsors, advertisers and volunteers that Tekapo Tourism has been able to install and operate this web camera.
The camera is capable of being watched live and be directed, by visitors to the website, to one of 20 views of interest available to the camera. Follow the link above to 'take control of the camera'.

If your browser fails to load the most recent image when opening this page, you may have to manually update the page by selecting the REFRESH or RELOAD command within your browser. Some browser settings may require you to hold the CTRL key while clicking REFRESH/RELOAD. This will reload this page with the most recent image.