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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. George Andrew Hobson (29 March 1854 – 25 January 1917) was a British civil engineer known for the development of the patented Hobson steel flooring and the design of the Victoria Falls Bridge. He was born in Leeds, Yorkshire and educated at King James's School, Knaresborough and Watt Institution in Edinburgh.
The Knife-Edge Bridge was constructed in this area in the 1960s to enable access on foot to the cliffs looking over the Rainbow Falls and the First Gorge's exit to the Boiling Pot in the Second Gorge. A steep footpath also goes down to the Boiling Pot, with views of the Second Gorge and the Victoria Falls Bridge. [3]
Chisimba Falls on the Luombe River 7.2 km from Chilubula Mission in Kasama District. Hippo Pool, Chingola on the Kafue River. Kalambo Falls, Mbala District — falls and archaeological site of early human habitation (the falls is shared with Tanzania). Kundabwika Falls on the Kalungwishi River in Kaputa District at 9°13' S 29°19' E
"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 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.
Victoria Falls combined road-rail bridge. Victoria Falls is connected by a road (the A8 road) and railway [8] to Hwange (109 km away) and Bulawayo (440 km away), both to the south-east. The route is part of the Cairo–Cape Town Highway (Trans-African Highway 4) and connects to the T1 highway in Zambia over the Victoria Falls Bridge over the ...