Grainger Falls is a
waterfall
A waterfall is a point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf.
Waterfalls can be formed in severa ...
in
Fiordland, New Zealand. It is a combination of a tiered and fan type waterfall.
Grainger Falls was first recorded by
Andreas Reischek, an Austrian who explored
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 List of islands of New Zealand, smaller islands. It is the ...
in the 1880s. He named the waterfall after his friend Alfred Grainger. Its exact location was established on 6 February 2006, by Dr David Richards and
Dr Roy Gordon Grainger. As the stream which drains Lake Hector and contains the waterfall was unnamed, the NZ Geographic Naming Board called it Grainger Stream. Grainger Falls and Stream are now recorded in the New Zealand Gazetteer of Official Geographic Names.
[http://www.linz.govt.nz/placenames/find-names/nz-gazetteer-official-names Gazetteer of NZ place names.] They are shown on the West Cape (CF04) map which is part of the NZ Topo50 series.
See also
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Waterfalls of New Zealand
References
Waterfalls of Fiordland
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