Hokkaido Lakes Catalog

Central Hokkaido

Lake Kokkuri

Rankoshi Town ・ コックリ湖

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1976Lake Kokkuri in 1976Aerial photo taken by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, shown with the film edge and instruments intact.

Aerial photo of Lake Kokkuri (Rankoshi Town, Hokkaido) taken in 1976
Taken October 17, 1976. Source: aerial photo by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (1976), resized.GSI Maps and Aerial Photo Service

About Lake Kokkuri

A pond at 570 m in the Niseko mountains of Rankoshi Town. In the 1991 survey it was an unmodified, oligotrophic lake with bogbean and reeds, crucian carp, and mallards in spring and autumn. The survey's data appendix lists its origin as subsidence.

Sources: Environment Agency of Japan, Lake Survey Report (1993), Environment Agency of Japan, Lake Survey Report: Data Appendix (1993) (sources in Japanese)

Lake data

Surface elevation
570 m
Origin
Other
Lake type
Oligotrophic
Freezing
Freezes in winter
Unmodified lake
Yes (shore entirely natural)
Natural park
Niseko-Shakotan-Otaru Kaigan Quasi-National Park
Lake number
1200number in the national lake survey

Sources: Environment Agency of Japan, 4th National Survey on the Natural Environment: Lake Survey Report (1993). Area and depth use newer figures from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan where available. Origin, lake type, transparency, freezing and unmodified status are as of the 1991 survey.

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