Virginia Falls

Virginia Falls is a major waterfall on the South Nahanni River in Nahanni National Park Reserve in Canada’s Northwest Territories, renowned as one of the remote region’s best-known natural landmarks. Explored in the summer of 1928 by Fenley Hunter of the Geological Survey of Canada, it was named for his daughter. The falls drop 96 metres in a single main plunge about 259 metres wide, making them about twice the height of Niagara Falls. Mason's Rock rises at the centre, named for Canadian canoeist, author, and filmmaker Bill Mason. The falls are also linked to the region’s dependence on air access through the nearby water aerodrome.

Northwest Territories · Canada