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Coordinates: 67.06195932031873, -23.96634920730749The Denmark Strait cataract is a submarine waterfall in the ocean channel between Iceland and Greenland. It is technically the world's largest waterfall, with waters plunging 11,500 feet down a slope from the top of the cataract to its bottom.
Glaciers carved out the Denmark Strait cataract between 17,500 and 11,500 years ago, during the last ice age. The waterfall straddles the Arctic circle and funnels polar waters from the Greenland, Norwegian and Iceland seas into the Irminger Sea, a region of the North Atlantic that is crucial for Atlantic-wide ocean circulation.
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