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| Image number: | 1971 |
| Feature : | waterfall with water vapour cloud |
| Grouping : | forests and trees |
| Discipline : | meteorology |
| Year : | 1995 |
| Locality : | Victoria falls, Zambezi |
| Country : | Zimbabwe |
| Region - tribe : | Zambezi valley |
| Physiographic region : | Kalahari sand plateau |
| Notice : | The falls, named after the former English queen Victoria, are the worlds largest. Wide 1,6 km and 120 m high. The cloud of water vapour creates particular wet conditions close to the falls, giving rise to tropical (cloud) forest vegetation on the plateau edge to the right of the picture, more luxureous than the normal miombo forest in this region. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1995 Image 1971. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |