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1919 Death of South Island explorer Donald Sutherland

In 1880 the renowned ‘backwoodsman’ Sutherland had ‘discovered’ the waterfall that bears his name on what is now the Milford Track – New Zealand’s best-known walking track.

Image: Donald Sutherland (DNZB) 

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External links

  • Milford Track (DoC)
  • Donald Sutherland (1966 encyclopaedia)
  • Sutherland Falls (1966 encyclopaedia)
  • Donald Sutherland biography (DNZB)
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