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| Image number: | 130 |
| Feature : | waterfall |
| Grouping : | river erosion |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1995 |
| Locality : | Victoria falls, Zambezi |
| Country : | Zimbabwe |
| Region - tribe : | Zambezi valley |
| Physiographic region : | Kalahari sand plateau |
| Notice : | Waterfall exploits fissure. 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. Low river level at the moment the picture has been taken. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1995 Image 130. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |