Victoria Falls (Mosi-oa-Tunya)
Cataratas Victoria (Mosi-oa-Tunya)
- Date
- 16 de noviembre de 1855 · confidence high
- Place
- Victoria Falls, Livingstone, Southern Province, Zambia
- Credited to
- David Livingstone (with Makololo guides)
- People
- 👤 Emil Holub1847–1902
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
In 1855 Livingstone reached the widest waterfall in the world on the Zambezi, known locally as Mosi-oa-Tunya ('the smoke that thunders'), and named it for Queen Victoria. His transcontinental journey (1853-56) changed the European picture of the southern interior.
The Makololo guided Livingstone; the falls straddle Zambia and Zimbabwe. Livingstone was only the first documented European to see them.
What it led to
- missionary and commercial campaigns on the Zambezi
- river geography of southern Africa
- tourism and hydropower in the region