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Gullfoss
Gullfoss (Golden Falls) is a two-tiered waterfall on the Hvítá river in southwest Iceland, dropping 32 meters on the Golden Circle route; protected as a nature reserve since 1979 after Sigríður Tómasdóttir's campaign against hydropower developers.
Reichenbach Falls
Reichenbach Falls (Reichenbachfälle) are a seven-tiered, roughly 250 m waterfall above Meiringen, Switzerland, fed by Rosenlaui Glacier meltwater, served by the 1899 Reichenbachfall-Bahn funicular, and famous as Sherlock Holmes's apparent death site in Conan Doyle's 1893 "The Final Problem".
Rhine Falls
Rhine Falls (Rheinfall), waterfall on the Rhine near Schaffhausen, Switzerland; Europe's largest waterfall by volume, not height: 23 m high, 150 m wide, about 600 m³/s in summer, record 1,250 m³/s in 1965.