The smoke that thunders
From Lake Malawi, the Shire River flows into the mighty Zambezi, which marks the southern limit of the African Rift system. Upstream, the Zambezi slices through the volcanic rocks of the Tonga plateau to crash down into the narrow Batoka gorge. More than a mile wide, with up to ten thousand tons of water pouring over its lip every second, Victoria Falls is the world鈥檚 largest waterfall. Its local name, Mosi-oa-Tunya, translates as 'the smoke that thunders. In 1855, David Livingstone, renamed them Victoria Falls, in honour of his Queen.
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