Situated on the border of Zambia in Zimbabwe, the Victoria Falls lies 420 feet high and it stand one mile wide. Named in 1855 by Scottish explorer David Livingstone after Queen Victoria, the name locally of the falls translated into the smoke that thunders. Particularly unique and beautiful because of the narrow chasm that the waterfalls into.
Victoria Falls is the largest signal sheet of water in the world. With Niagara falls palling in comparison.
Located about midway down the Zambezi River, the chasm is about 400 feet wide and it was carved along the fracture in the earth’s crust.
Every minute about 500 million liters of water go over the falls edges and the vast forced of all this falling water creates spray that arises hundred the feet into the air.
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