Victoria Falls
Could have titled this... "If I Only Had a Drone"
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Victoria Falls (Lozi: Mosi-oa-Tunya, "The Smoke That Thunders") (Toka Leya: Shungu Namutitima, "Boiling water") is a waterfall on the Zambezi River in southern Africa, which provides habitat for several unique species of plants and animals. It is located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
While it is neither the highest nor the widest waterfall in the world, Victoria Falls is classified as the largest, based on its combined width of 1,708 meters (5,604 ft) and height of 108 meters (354 ft), resulting in the world's largest sheet of falling water.
Victoria Falls is roughly twice the height of North America's Niagara Falls and well over twice the width of its Horseshoe Falls. In height and width Victoria Falls is rivalled only by Argentina and Brazil's Iguazu Falls.
For a considerable distance upstream from the falls, the Zambezi flows over a level sheet of basalt, in a shallow valley, bounded by low and distant sandstone hills. The river's course is dotted with numerous tree-covered islands, which increase in number as the river approaches the falls.
The falls are formed as the full width of the river plummets in a single vertical drop into a transverse chasm 1,708 meters (5,604 ft) wide, carved by its waters along a fracture zone in the basalt plateau.
David Livingstone, the Scottish missionary and explorer, is believed to have been the first European to view Victoria Falls on 16 November 1855, from what is now known as Livingstone Island, one of two land masses in the middle of the river, immediately upstream from the falls near the Zambian shore.
Livingstone named his sighting in honor of Queen Victoria of Britain, Livingstone also cites an older name, Seongo or Chongwe, which means "The Place of the Rainbow", as a result of the constant spray.
(Nikon, 18-200 f/5.6, 1/400 @ f/10, ISO 100)
Victoria Falls
Could have titled this... "If I Only Had a Drone"
One from the Archives
Victoria Falls (Lozi: Mosi-oa-Tunya, "The Smoke That Thunders") (Toka Leya: Shungu Namutitima, "Boiling water") is a waterfall on the Zambezi River in southern Africa, which provides habitat for several unique species of plants and animals. It is located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
While it is neither the highest nor the widest waterfall in the world, Victoria Falls is classified as the largest, based on its combined width of 1,708 meters (5,604 ft) and height of 108 meters (354 ft), resulting in the world's largest sheet of falling water.
Victoria Falls is roughly twice the height of North America's Niagara Falls and well over twice the width of its Horseshoe Falls. In height and width Victoria Falls is rivalled only by Argentina and Brazil's Iguazu Falls.
For a considerable distance upstream from the falls, the Zambezi flows over a level sheet of basalt, in a shallow valley, bounded by low and distant sandstone hills. The river's course is dotted with numerous tree-covered islands, which increase in number as the river approaches the falls.
The falls are formed as the full width of the river plummets in a single vertical drop into a transverse chasm 1,708 meters (5,604 ft) wide, carved by its waters along a fracture zone in the basalt plateau.
David Livingstone, the Scottish missionary and explorer, is believed to have been the first European to view Victoria Falls on 16 November 1855, from what is now known as Livingstone Island, one of two land masses in the middle of the river, immediately upstream from the falls near the Zambian shore.
Livingstone named his sighting in honor of Queen Victoria of Britain, Livingstone also cites an older name, Seongo or Chongwe, which means "The Place of the Rainbow", as a result of the constant spray.
(Nikon, 18-200 f/5.6, 1/400 @ f/10, ISO 100)