Story: Glaciers and glaciation

Lake Quill and the Sutherland Falls

Lake Quill and the Sutherland Falls

Lake Quill fills a large, steep-sided basin and overflows into the Sutherland Falls, which drop 580 metres in three stages.

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Eileen McSaveney, 'Glaciers and glaciation - Retreating ice and the glacier legacy', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/10749/lake-quill-and-the-sutherland-falls (accessed 29 September 2023)

Story by Eileen McSaveney, published 24 Sep 2007, updated 1 Apr 2021