1,708 metres or more than a mile long, Victoria Falls is one of the world’s biggest waterfalls – while some waterfalls are much higher and some much l
1,708 metres or more than a mile long, Victoria Falls is one of the world’s biggest waterfalls – while some waterfalls are much higher and some much longer, Victoria Falls enormous length combined with its 108 metre height in the world's largest sheet of falling water. More than a kilotonne of water pours over the top every second, generating so much spray that the area immediately around the Falls has its own distinct microclimate in this otherwise arid region. The Falls divide Zambia from Zimbabwe. Also in shot is the graceful Victoria Falls Bridge, built in 1905. The bridge was the brainchild of Cecil Rhodes, part of his grand and unfulfilled Cape to Cairo railway scheme, even though he never visited the falls and died before construction of the bridge began. Rhodes is recorded as instructing the engineers to "build the bridge across the Zambezi where the trains, as they pass, will catch the spray of the Falls". It was designed by George Andrew Hobson of consultants Sir Douglas Fox and Partners, assisted by the stress calculations of Ralph Freeman, who was later the principal designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The main central arch is a parabolic curve. The bridge was prefabricated in England by the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company,[3] before being shipped to the port city of Beira in Portuguese-ruled Mozambique, and then transported on the newly constructed railway to the Victoria Falls. It took just 14 months to construct and was completed in 1905. (This paragraph contains text from the English Wikipedia.) This was taken from the first, and so far only, helicopter flight I have ever taken. Zimbabwe is in the foreground, Zambia to the rear on the left of shot.
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