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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).
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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 ...
European explorers often preferred to give waterfalls names in their own language; for instance, David Livingstone named Victoria Falls after Queen Victoria, though it was known by local peoples as Mosi-oa-Tunya. Many waterfalls have descriptive names which can come from the river they are on, places they are near, their features, or events ...
The Statue of David Livingstone on the Zimbabwean side of the Victoria Falls is erected towards Devil's Cataract in the western bank of the falls. The statue has an inscription that states that David Livingstone visited the falls in 1855 when he documented his first impression on the beauty of the waterfalls during his first encounter when he named the falls after Queen Victoria.
The settlement began in 1901 when the possibility of using the waterfall for hydro-electric power was explored, and expanded when the railway from Bulawayo reached the town shortly before the Victoria Falls Bridge was opened in April 1905, connecting Southern Rhodesia (later Rhodesia; now Zimbabwe) to Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). It became ...
The explorer and missionary David Livingstone became the first European to observe Victoria Falls in 1854, [4] naming the falls after Queen Victoria. While the Big Tree is sometimes referred to as Livingstone's Tree, [3] Livingstone carved his name into a smaller baobab tree on Garden Island above the precipice of the waterfall. [5]