Wallaman Falls
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Wallaman Falls, Australia's tallest single drop waterfall, is located in the "wet tropics" area of Queensland. It was found by Johnny Bloom in 1870 on an expedition looking at flora and fauna. Its height is 279 to 347 meters, depending on how it is measured. It is in Lumholtz National Park.
The pool at the end of the waterfall is approx. 10 metres deep and the lagoon is 20 metres in diameter. Its stone is igneous and is called basalt. Scientists have always found this strange because there is no opening in the earth's crust located there for magma to come out. Britain claimed the falls in the late 1870s but the Aborigines have claimed it back since then. Before Johnny came along it was originally named Jujumkalla by the Aborigines.
It was named after Johnny's Grandfather, Wallaman Bloom, apparently because of his great height.
External links
- http://www.world-waterfalls.com/database.php?s=N&t=H&orderby=height&sortLimit=300
- Australian government page about Lumholtz National Park (http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/about/environs/lumholtz.html)