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| Image number: | 1954 |
| Feature : | waterfall |
| Grouping : | river erosion |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1995 |
| Locality : | Victoria falls, Zambezi |
| Country : | Zimbabwe |
| Region - tribe : | Zambezi |
| 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 local people call the falls "Mosi-Oa-Tunya", "smoke that thunders". There is, indeed, the continuous cloud of water vapour that creates particular wet conditions close to the falls. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1995 Image 1954. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |