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Waterfalls

Rivers at the point where they fall, and what the drop does to the land, the wildlife and the people around it.

Places in this collection

  • Entry № 021

    Katmai & Brooks Falls

    Brown bears stand at the lip of a waterfall catching leaping salmon — the most honest queue in nature, with a platform for watching it.

  • Entry № 026

    Nahanni

    Náįlįcho, a waterfall twice Niagara's height, and four great canyons in a roadless reserve — among the first UNESCO sites ever listed.

  • Entry № 044

    Plitvice Lakes

    Sixteen lakes held back by dams that moss, algae and bacteria are still building, roughly a centimetre or two a year.

  • Entry № 076

    Victoria Falls

    Classed as the largest sheet of falling water on Earth, and a waterfall that keeps walking upriver: the zigzag canyon below it is where it used to be.

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