NZ police release name over Lake Wakatipu

Police can now name the man who died at Lake Wakatipu on 13 January.

He was Linkin Kisling, aged 48, from Wānaka.

Our thoughts are with his whānau and loved ones.

A rāhui is in place on an area that covers Glenorchy and the Dart River end of Lake Wakatipu until 3pm on Tuesday 17 January.

The rāhui has been placed on behalf of Rūnanga o Ōtākou and Kāi Tahu ki Tuawhenua Kāhui, and a blessing was held at the site yesterday.

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