Victoria Falls
Water
The Smoke That Thunders, on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe.
At Victoria Falls the Zambezi river drops 108 metres into a narrow gorge, over an edge 1.7 kilometres wide. It is the largest curtain of falling water in the world.
The falls lie on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. People who live there call them Mosi-oa-Tunya, The Smoke That Thunders: the cloud of spray can be seen from tens of kilometres away.
- wide
- 1.7 km
- high
- 108 m
- countries share them
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At full moon the spray makes a moonbow: a rainbow at night.
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The explorer David Livingstone named the falls after the British queen Victoria in 1855.
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In the rainy season hundreds of millions of litres of water go over the edge every minute.
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