Milford Sound Stirling Falls with four small yellow sea kayaks underneath high waterfall. Fiordland National Park New Zealand.
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.
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Location: Milford Sound, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand, South Island
Photo credit: © Wim Wiskerke / Alamy / Afripics
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