Victoria Falls

Dancers Falls National Park Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls

Photos from 1983

 

The Victoria Falls Hotel

 

David Livingstone

Victoria Falls, also Mosi-oa-Tunya, waterfall in south central Africa, on the Zambezi River, on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia. The river, here more than 1.6 km (1 mi) wide, plunges 110 m (360 ft). A railroad bridge, completed in 1905, spans the gorge below the falls. The name Victoria was given to the falls by the Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone, who visited it in 1855.

 

diagram of the Zimbabwe side of the falls

 

small channel on the South side of the falls

 

larger channel

 

 

the falls canyon

 

main falls

 

morning mist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bridge to Zambia

Photos of Victoria Falls from Zambia side

 

on the Zambezi River at dusk

 

 

sunset on the Zambezi River

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