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The bridge under construction in 1905. Victoria Falls Bridge from the Knife Edge Bridge trail near the falls on the Zambia side. Constructed from steel, the bridge is 198 metres (650 ft) [1] long, with a main arch spanning 156.50 metres (513.5 ft), [3] at a height of 128 metres (420 ft) [3] above the lower water mark of the river in the gorge ...
The boundaries of Wells Gray Park encompass 60 percent of the drainage basin of the Clearwater River, and most water that originates in the park flows into this river.The northern two-thirds of the park is extremely rugged with relief ranging from Clearwater Lake at an elevation of 680 m (2,231 ft) to 2,946 m (9,665 ft) at Mount Lyons on the northern park boundary, 4.9 km (3.0 mi) west of ...
The Sooke Flowline is an abandoned 44-kilometre (27 mi) concrete aqueduct that snakes through the Sooke Hills from Sooke Lake to the Humpback Reservoir, near Mount Wells Regional Park, in British Columbia, Canada. From this reservoir, a buried, riveted steel pressure main transported water to Victoria. Between 1994 and 2007, this main was ...
The Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge stood from 1855 to 1897 across the Niagara River and was the world's first working railway suspension bridge. It spanned 825 feet (251 m) and stood 2.5 miles (4.0 km) downstream of Niagara Falls, where it connected Niagara Falls, Ontario to Niagara Falls, New York. Trains used the upper of its two decks ...
Bridge construction. The predecessor of the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge was the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, which carried foot and rail traffic, opened in 1855, and was most notable for being the world's first working railway suspension bridge and for being the bridge that was used by abolitionists running the Underground Railroad to get slaves to freedom in Canada.
Victoria Falls. Victoria Falls (Lozi: Mosi-oa-Tunya, "Thundering Smoke"; Tonga: Shungu Namutitima, "Boiling Water") is a waterfall on the Zambezi River, located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. [2] It is one of the world's largest waterfalls, with a width of 1,708 m (5,604 ft). The region around it is inhabited by several species of ...
The Aboriginal name for the Sale area is Wayput. [4] Two famous Gippsland explorers, Paul Strzelecki and Angus McMillan, passed through the immediate area around 1840.The first white settler was Archibald McIntosh who arrived in 1844 and established his 'Flooding Creek' property on the flood plain country which was duly inundated soon after his arrival.
Crossing at Victoria Falls. The Cape to Cairo Railway was an unfinished project to create a railway line crossing from southern to northern Africa. It would have been the largest, and most important, railway of the continent. It was planned as a link between Cape Town in South Africa and Port Said in Egypt. [1] [2] The project was never completed.