Towering walls of Doubtful Sound

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Towering walls of Doubtful Sound

Towering walls of Doubtful Sound

If you look good, you'll see a waterfall coming of this huge wall. And if you zoom in even more, you'll see that there are in fact lots more of them. Courtesy of all the rain in this area. Fiordland, New Zealand.
rgg
on Apr 23, 2011 6:40 am
Image Type(s): Scenery,  Water
Image ID: 711411

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Tomek Lodowy

Tomek Lodowy - Apr 23, 2011 5:49 pm - Voted 10/10

gloomy great

yep, the waterfall is up there, great climate!

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rgg

rgg - Apr 24, 2011 12:39 am - Hasn't voted

Re: gloomy great

Can't say I love the climate out there, but without it, Fiordland wouldn't be what it is today.

These huge fiords were sculpted by big glaciers in the not all that distant past, and filled by the ocean when they melted by the end of the last big ice age. The rock is hard, so erosion is slow and the walls remain steep.

And last but not least, the high levels of precipitation keep it covered in a dense and almost impenetrable temperate rainforest, with waterfalls everywhere.

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