Photograph of a rocky escarpment at the top of which is a waterfall falling into heavily wooded landscape below. A viewing platform that is not included in this photograph, was constructed at the bottom left of the photograph.  

This dramatic photograph emphasizes the grandeur and sense of space afforded by the Australian landscape; a popular theme for European or so called 'Settler photographers' during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. 

This is a photograph from one of the nine albums compiled following Prince Albert Victor (1864-92) and Prince George of Wales' (1865-1936) world tour aboard HMS Bacchante from 1879 to 1882. The photographs were collected by their chaperon and tutor, John Neale Dalton.

The majority of the images in these albums are topographical views and architectural studies, loosely arranged according to the group’s itinerary. They include photographs of artefacts, local people and public figures, as well as portraits of the princes taken during the tour. The attempt to recreate the experience of a journey through such an assortment of images is common to many amateur travelling albums of this period. In 1886, some of the photographs in the albums were reproduced as engravings in the published accounts of the voyage, The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship Bacchante, 1879-1882.