Milford Sound Stirling Falls with four small yellow sea kayaks underneath high waterfall. Fiordland National Park New Zealand.
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Wim Wiskerke / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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3650 x 5472 px | 30.9 x 46.3 cm | 12.2 x 18.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
26 February 2014Location:
Milford Sound, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand, South IslandMore information:
Four bright yellow sea kayaks are tiny specs underneath 500ft high Stirling Falls in NZ Milford Sound. Stirling Falls drops around 150 meter (500ft) from a hanging valley between Elephant and Lion Mountains. It is the second largest permanent waterfall in the Milford Sound fiord. Stirling River is fed by a glacier in the mountains behind. Named after Captain Stirling who navigated Milford Sound in the 1870's. With a mean annual rainfall of 6, 813 mm (268 in) on 182 days a year, Milford Sound is known as the wettest inhabited place in New Zealand and one of the wettest in the world. Rainfall can reach 250 mm (10 in) during a span of 24 hours. The rainfall creates dozens of temporary waterfalls (as well as a number of major, more permanent ones) cascading down the cliff faces, some reaching a thousand meters in length. Smaller falls from such heights may never reach the bottom of the sound, drifting away in the wind.