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Gullfoss Waterfall...

Gullfoss is one of the most popular waterfall in Iceland. The wide Hvítá rushes southward, and about a kilometre above the falls it turns sharply to the right and flows down into a wide curved three-step "staircase". The crevice, about 20 metres wide and 2.5 kilometres in length, extends perpendicular to the flow of the river. The average amount of water running down the waterfall is 140 cubic metres per second in the summer and 80 cubic metres per second in the winter.

 

As one first approaches the falls, the edge is obscured from view, so that it appears that the river simply vanishes into the earth.

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Uploaded on November 14, 2016
Taken on October 5, 2016