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Updated: 02 June 2003 Tallest WaterfallsAustralia's Tallest WaterfallsThese waterfalls occur on rivers forming a coordinated drainage system throughout the eastern highlands. Although the catchment areas of these easterly draining rivers are small, their high-volume flows from very wet mountain ranges have gouged deep gorges, producing spectacular waterfalls.
305 meters (numerous ledges) West of Ingham, high in the Seaview Range, accumulated waters surge along Stony Creek to abruptly plunge more than 300 metres down a sheer cliff, creating Wallaman Falls, Australia's tallest waterfall.
220 meters (100m as single drop) Wollomombi Falls, east of Armidale, includes a single drop of 100 metres. It is sometimes quoted as Australia's tallest waterfall, but this is only so if measured from its highest point, where the land has a much gentler gradient and the water does not truly 'fall'.
160 meters (single drop) Ellenborough Falls, perched on the edge of the New England Tableland just north of Taree, is regarded as Australia's tallest single-drop waterfall. |
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