Did you know... some Niagara falls facts and figures
Since I managed to impress one local at least (with knowledge stolen from a CN tower souvenir t shirt it must be said), and maybe someone at home, with the CN tower stats, here are some things you might not know about Niagara falls.. (where i was today)
1) Actually there are 2 falls. The American falls are 300m wide and 50m high, whilst the Canadian falls, also known as the horseshoe or cataract falls because of their C/U shape, are 800m wide and 50m high.
2) Niagara falls attracts 12m visitors a year.
3) The falls are only 12,000 years old and they started off somewhere between 4 and 11km further up the road from where they are now. If left alone, they would recede 1m a year. Eventually they will recede all the way back to Buffalo on Lake Erie and disappear.
4) It is reported that anything from 84 to 186 million litres of water fall down the falls every minute. Thats 1.4 to 3.1 million litres a second.
5) Up until 1951, this number was 6 million a second, until the US and Canadian governments signed an agreement channeling more water towards Hydroelectric schemes. The channeling of this water has slowed the falls movement backwards from 1m a year to 30cm.
6) Niagara falls is the largest individual supply of hydroelectric power anywhere in the world.
7) For $13, you can climb into the maid of the mist boat, and float right through to the canadian falls. Actually there are 2 maid of the mist docking points, one in Niagara Falls, NY, USA, and one in NIagara Falls, Ont. For political reasons (i for one didnt have my passport today!) they do not pass from one to the other! Why you would want to pay $13 for the experience of getting soaked is another matter entirely.
8) Niagara falls forms a border between the USA and Canada. There are various bridges at Niagara to travel from one country to the other - the largest being the Rainbow bridge.
1) Actually there are 2 falls. The American falls are 300m wide and 50m high, whilst the Canadian falls, also known as the horseshoe or cataract falls because of their C/U shape, are 800m wide and 50m high.
2) Niagara falls attracts 12m visitors a year.
3) The falls are only 12,000 years old and they started off somewhere between 4 and 11km further up the road from where they are now. If left alone, they would recede 1m a year. Eventually they will recede all the way back to Buffalo on Lake Erie and disappear.
4) It is reported that anything from 84 to 186 million litres of water fall down the falls every minute. Thats 1.4 to 3.1 million litres a second.
5) Up until 1951, this number was 6 million a second, until the US and Canadian governments signed an agreement channeling more water towards Hydroelectric schemes. The channeling of this water has slowed the falls movement backwards from 1m a year to 30cm.
6) Niagara falls is the largest individual supply of hydroelectric power anywhere in the world.
7) For $13, you can climb into the maid of the mist boat, and float right through to the canadian falls. Actually there are 2 maid of the mist docking points, one in Niagara Falls, NY, USA, and one in NIagara Falls, Ont. For political reasons (i for one didnt have my passport today!) they do not pass from one to the other! Why you would want to pay $13 for the experience of getting soaked is another matter entirely.
8) Niagara falls forms a border between the USA and Canada. There are various bridges at Niagara to travel from one country to the other - the largest being the Rainbow bridge.
posted by CBC at 10:15 pm
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