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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 recent geological history of Victoria Falls can be seen in the overall form of the Batoka Gorge, with its six individual gorges and eight past positions of the falls. The east–west oriented gorges imply structural control with alignment along joints of shatter zones, or faults with 50 metres (160 ft) of vertical displacement as is the ...
Victoria Falls Bridge: road and rail bridge Livingstone, Zambia–Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe: 1905 [6] open Kariba Dam: road over dam Siavonga ...
"Bridges of Zimbabwe" (PDF). Rhodesianstudycircle.org.uk.Philatelic Bureau Bulletin N°5. 24 October 2006. Cruz, Nuno (May 23, 2017). Ciclo de Conferências: Obras de Engenharia Geotécnica Portuguesa no Mundo – Infraestruturas de transportes [Cycle of Conferences: Works of Portuguese Geotechnical Engineering in the World – transport infrastructure] (PDF).
The river forms the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, so the falls are shared by the two countries, and the park is twin to the Victoria Falls National Park on the Zimbabwean side. [3] ‘Mosi-oa-Tunya’ comes from the Kololo or Lozi language, and the name is now used throughout Zambia and in parts of Zimbabwe. [3]
The Victoria Falls Conference, the détente initiative and the associated ceasefire, though unsuccessful, did affect the course of the Rhodesian Bush War, as they gave the nationalist guerrillas significant time to regroup and reorganise themselves following the decisive security force counter-campaign of 1973–74.
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