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Wakatipu
Wakatipu meaning
A district in inland Otago, New Zealand. | Ellipsis of Lake Wakatipu.
Example sentences (5)
The man was one of three people who had swum out to help a boy struggling in the water at Lake Wakatipu, on the South Island, on Thursday afternoon.
Wakatipu Garden Club has become a bit of a hardy perennial itself.
In the bottom four, Wakatipu beat St Kevin's College 26-17 while South Otago beat the Combined schools co-ed team 24-17.
The Aro Ha, overlooking Lake Wakatipu, offers a raw-food menu plucked straight from the garden.
In standard Māori, Wakatipu would have been rendered Whakatipua, showing further the elision of a final vowel.