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The Blood Falls in Antarctica
Antarctica is the world’s coldest place. Blood Falls is an outflow of water, flowing from the Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land, East Antarctica.
The reddish falls were first discovered in Antarctica in 1911, by the Australian geologist Griffith Taylor, where he noticed a river had stained the surrounding cliff of ice with a deep red color. Previously, he had believed it was due to algae discoloring the water, however that hypothesis was never verified.
