{"id":2091,"date":"2011-03-08T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T22:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2011-03-02T18:07:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T07:07:55","slug":"lake-cootapatamba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/lake-cootapatamba\/2091","title":{"rendered":"Lake Cootapatamba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/pi\/1235\/lake-cootapatamba-kosciuszko-national-park-nsw-australia\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lake Cootapatamba, Kosciuszko National Park, NSW, Australia\"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PL-AUNSWKZLC02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the six glacial lakes in Australia, Lake Cootapatamba certainly can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take any prises for it size; however, it is officially holding a crown of the highest lake in Australia \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 2042 meters above the sea level.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/pi\/1239\/lake-cootapatamba-kosciuszko-national-park-nsw-australia\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lake Cootapatamba, Kosciuszko National Park, NSW, Australia\"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PL-AUNSWKZLC03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is located about 900 meters south of the Australian highest mountain &#8211; Mount Kosciusko and can be viewed from the lookout along the Mt Kosciusko summit trail near Rawson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pass.<\/p>\n<p>Slope between the summit trail and the lake is marked by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no walking\u00e2\u20ac\u009d signs, but lake can be easily accessed from the southern side of the Cootapatamba valley. As for all other glacial lakes in the park, in order to protect natural balance and prevent contamination, camping is not permitted anywhere inside lake\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s catchment area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/pi\/1232\/lake-cootapatamba-kosciuszko-national-park-nsw-australia\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2092\" title=\"Lake Cootapatamba, Kosciuszko National Park, NSW, Australia\"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PL-AUNSWKZLC01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Translated from Aboriginal language, the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cootapatamba\u00e2\u20ac\u009d means \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the icy waters where the eagle swoops to drink\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, referring to an eagle creator spirit from Aboriginal Dreamtime creation stories.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the six glacial lakes in Australia, Lake Cootapatamba certainly can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take any prises for it size; however, it is officially holding a crown of the highest lake in Australia \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 2042 meters above the sea level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[460,25],"tags":[464,17,489,336,488,218,567,18,487,226,200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}