See Sutherland Falls (Milford Track), New Zealand

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Sutherland Falls is a waterfall near Milford Sound in New Zealand's South Island. The water of the falls comes from Lake Quill, which is a rock basin that directly falls over the vertical cliff. At 580 metres (1,904 feet) the falls were long believed to be the tallest waterfall in New Zealand. However, Browne Falls cascades 843 metres (2,766 feet) down a mountainside in Doubtful Sound, leading some to view that as the tallest. Water falls in three cascades, the upper is 229 m tall, middle - 248 m, lower - 103 m tall. Vertical fall of 580 m is made over 480 m of horizontal distance, thus the mean grade of falls is approximately 56 degrees. The base of Sutherland Falls is a 90 minutes (return) walk from Quintin Public Shelter on the Milford Track. utherland Falls named for Donald Sutherland, a great explorer, who found the falls in 1880 while discovering travel routes between Lake Wakatipu and Milford Sound.

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