Lake Daniell

{{Short description|Lake in New Zealand}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2024}}

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| name = Lake Daniell

| image = Lake Daniell.jpg

| alt = Lake Daniell

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| location = West Coast, South Island, New Zealand

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| pushpin_map_alt = Location of Lake Daniell

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| outflow = Frazer Stream

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Lake Daniell is a lake in the West Coast Region of the South Island of New Zealand. Until 2008 the lake was officially named as Lake Daniells.{{cite web |url= https://gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/2008-ln3346 |title=Notice of Final Decisions to Assign or Alter or Remove Place Names |date=15 May 2008 |work=The New Zealand Gazette |publisher= |access-date=8 December 2019}}

It is drained by Frazer Stream which in turn feeds into the Alfred River and is surrounded by old growth beech forest. A tramping track leads to the lake and an adjacent hut, the Manson-Nicholls Memorial Hut.{{cite web

|title=Lewis Pass tramping tracks

|publisher=New Zealand Department of Conservation

|url=http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/trackandwalk.aspx?id=36413

|access-date=2007-12-19

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014101235/http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/trackandwalk.aspx?id=36413

|archive-date=2008-10-14

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In 2002 there was a search in the area for a missing tramper who was part of a group staying at the lake. The tramper, a 14-year-old male, was found dead next to the Alfred River.{{cite news

| last = Robson

| first = Seth

| title =Ten-week search ends

| newspaper = The Press

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| publisher = Fairfax

| date = 2002-02-12

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