Lake Poukawa is a small shallow hardwater lake in the Hawke's Bay Region, North Island, New Zealand. It is located about 20 km south-west of Hastings, New Zealand, close to the settlement of Te Hauke. It is the largest lake lying within a peatland in the active tectonic Poukawa depression (or Poukawa Basin), between the Raukawa Range and Kaokaoroa Range of central Hawke's Bay. Its maximal depth is less than one metre and its diameter is ca. 1.5 km. It was deeper in the past (about 2.5 metre) but it was artificially drained after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.[1] Lake Poukawa is drained by the Poukawa Stream, which flows north-eastward through the Pekapeka Wetland and eventually into the Clive River.
Lake Poukawa became a well-known paleontological site in 1956 when paleontologist Russell Price began with his excavations in the lacustrine deposits. Lake Poukawa had a species rich Pleistocene/Holocene waterfowl fauna. More than 13,400 anatid bones were unearthed at this site since 1956. Extinct birds found at Lake Poukawa include Biziura delautouri, Oxyura vantetsi, Mergus australis, Chenonetta finschi, Pachyornis geranoides, Ixobrychus novaezelandiae, Gallinula hodgenorum, Fulica prisca, Malacorhynchus scarletti, and Cnemiornis gracilis. Twelve km south of Lake Poukawa is the Te Aute swamp which is known for its moa fossils and tracks.
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LakePoukawa is a small shallow hardwater lake in the Hawke's Bay Region, North Island, New Zealand. It is located about 20 km south-west of Hastings,...
most ecologically valuable wetland in Hawke's Bay. The Poukawa Stream, which drains LakePoukawa in the south-west, runs through the Pekapeka Wetland....
referable to B. lobata. Later finds of musk duck fossils have been made at LakePoukawa and Waikuku Beach on the North Island. The duck was evidently very similar...
flows into the Tukituki River via the Papanui Stream, south west of LakePoukawa. The Waipawa changed its course during a flood in 1868. In the Cyclone...
palaeontologist Peter L. Horn found subfossil bones of a bittern from LakePoukawa, which he named Dupetor flavicollis. In 1991, Philip Millener identified...
Upokoiri) prompting further conflict over the erection of rahui poles on LakePoukawa, Ngati Rangikoianake's eel fishing area. The conflict, starting around...
(2002). "Phytolith analysis and paleoenvironmental reconstruction from LakePoukawa Core, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand". Global and Planetary Change. 33 (3–4):...
force to Lake Rotoatara and Te Whiuwhiuhoia led the rest to LakePoukawa. At Rotoatara, Paraihe had built a new pā on the edge of the lake, called Te...
metres: Lake Hauroko: 462 and ~117. Lake Manapouri: 444 and 149. Lake Te Anau: 425 and ~169. Lake Wakatipu: 420 and 130. Lake Hāwea: 392 and ~101. Lake Wānaka:...
mammals. Snipe-rail Capellirallus karamu North Island Excavations at LakePoukawa, Hawke's Bay show that snipe-rails were once common but drastically reduced...
is on the south side of the Waipukurau Block, which extends as far as LakePoukawa. Henry Russell set up the Mount Herbert estate, to the east of Waipukurau...
River to join the Tukituki through the Papanui Stream, south west of LakePoukawa. The Waipawa changed its course during a flood in 1868. It reverted to...
1948. The manager's house has gone, but the aerials and hall remain. LakePoukawa List of radio stations in Hawke's Bay RNZ National Names & Opening &...
decades on several paleontological deposits on New Zealand like Te Aute, LakePoukawa, or the Pyramid Valley swamp where he unearthed and described the fossil...
nov., a Middle Eocene diatom (Bacillariophyceae: Aulacoseiraceae) from lake sediments at Horsefly, British Columbia, Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth...
bones have been found in sand dunes at Mataikona in the eastern Wairarapa, Poukawa near Hastings, and Waitomo, indicating that they ranged through lowland...
Sherenden-Crownthorpe Maraekakaho Puketapu-Eskdale Omahu-Pakowhai Bridge Pa Twyford Poukawa Flaxmere West Omahu Strip Lochain Park Flaxmere Park Flaxmere South Irongate...
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