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Description
Lake draining into Cook Stream in Tamatea / Dusky Sound, southwest of Pickersgill Harbour.; Name submitted by AC Begg of Dunedin in May 1963, after the discoverer of the lake. Forster was a botanist on the Resolution, Cook's ship that charted these waters in 1773. 'Fiordland National Park, at the head of Cook Creek, Pickersgill Harbour, Dusky Sound. After Johann Forster and his son George, the German scientists on the Resolution. Here George Forster caught and made a painting of the native trout (Galaxias fasciatus).' Source: Reed, A.W. & Peter Dowling, Place Names of New Zealand, 2010.