Grainger Falls is a waterfall in Fiordland, New Zealand.Grainger Falls New Zealand Place Names Database (Archived). Land Information, New Zealand (LINZ). Retrieved 25 December 2011. It is a combination of a tiered and fan type waterfall.
Grainger Falls was first recorded by Andreas Reischek, an Austrian who explored New Zealand in the 1880s. He named the waterfall after his friend Alfred Grainger.Reischek, Andreas. Yesterdays in Maoriland. Jonathon Cape, London, 1930, page 248. Its exact location was established on 6 February 2006, by David Richards and Roy Gordon Grainger.http://www.atm.ox.ac.uk/user/grainger/gf/index.html Grainger's website. Retrieved 25 December 2011. As the stream which drains Lake Hector and contains the waterfall was unnamed, the NZ Geographic Naming Board called it Grainger Stream. Grainger Falls and Stream are now recorded in the New Zealand Gazetteer of Official Geographic Names.http://www.linz.govt.nz/placenames/find-names/nz-gazetteer-official-names Gazetteer of NZ place names. They are shown on the West Cape (CF04) map which is part of the NZ Topo50 series.
See also List of waterfalls, Waterfalls of New Zealand
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