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The Lady Bowen falls Milford Sound NZ (12196316935)

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The Bowen River is a river in northern Fiordland, New Zealand.]The river runs south for 8 km, before flowing from a hanging valley to become the 162 m Lady Bowen Falls, and draining into the head of Milford Sound. The falls are named for Diamantina Bowen, wife of George Bowen, the fifth Governor of New Zealand.

The falls provide electricity for the Milford Sound settlement by feeding a small hydroelectric scheme, and are also the water source for the settlement.

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bowen falls new zealand photographs taken on 2008 10 03 photographs by bernard spragg stock photography
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03/10/2008
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