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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 ...
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.
A new statue of David Livingstone was erected in November 2005 on the Zambian side of Victoria Falls. [104] Zimbabwe. The David Livingstone Memorial statue at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, erected in 1934 [108] on the western bank of the falls. [109] Michler 2007 quoted 1954 which is wrong. The statue was unveiled on 5 August 1934 [110]
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.
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]
The Livingstone Museum is located in the heart of the Livingstone town on the Mosi-o-Tunya Road. It is 10 km away from the Victoria Falls, on the Zambian side. [1] [8] Road access is from three directions. The 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) drive from across the border near the town of Victoria Falls crosses over the famous Victoria Falls Bridge.
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The Victoria Falls Bridge crosses the Zambezi River just below the Victoria Falls and is built over the Second Gorge of the falls. As the river forms the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, the bridge links the two countries and has border posts on the approaches to both ends, at the towns of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, and Livingstone, Zambia.