Schwartzenbach Falls

Schwartzenbach Falls, also known as Qulitasaniakvik, is a tiered horsetail waterfall in the Weasel River Valley on Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. Rising 520 metres in total, it is Canada’s fourth-tallest waterfall and the tallest outside British Columbia. The falls descend from an unnamed stream over the valley’s western wall, with an upper plunge of about 200 metres followed by four smaller cascades dropping another 320 metres to the talus below. Its Inuktitut name means “place to get caribou skins,” reflecting the valley above as a traditional caribou hunting area and linking the falls to the landscape’s older human use.

Nunavut · Canada