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Saint Andrews Church, Livingstone — built 1910-11 in memory of David Livingstone and still in use. Shiwa House — 'manor house' built in 1922 by Sir Stewart Gore-Browne at his Shiwa Ngandu estate. Victoria Falls Bridge, Livingstone — 1905, first major bridge and first railway (shared with Zimbabwe)
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 ...
Livingstone is a city in Zambia. [1] Until 1935, it served as the capital of Northern Rhodesia.Lying 10 km (6 mi) to the north of the Zambezi River, it is a tourism attraction center for the Victoria Falls [2] [3] [4] and a border town with road and rail connections to Zimbabwe on the other side of the Victoria Falls.
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.
Portuguese ruins in Zimbabwe are scattered across the northern parts of Zimbabwe.They are a remnant of the Portuguese colonial presence in south-eastern Africa.From their coastal settlements, the Portuguese penetrated into what is now Zimbabwe as early as 1560, nearly 300 years before David Livingstone arrived at the Victoria Falls.
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 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]
Southern Province is one of Zambia's ten provinces.It is home to Zambia's premier tourist attraction, Mosi-oa-Tunya (Victoria Falls), shared with Zimbabwe.The centre of the province, the Southern Plateau, has the largest area of commercial farmland of any Zambian province, and produces most of the maize crop.