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A gorgeous gorge, seen from Cessna above.
19 responses to “Victoria Falls”
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Your earlier shots inspired me to do a "Google flyover" of the area…
This is much nicer. -
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Named after Queen Victoria….
As in "The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire"
Dr Livingston I presume ?
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Yes, named after Victoria, the German Queen of England (House of Saxe Coburg Gotha) with a German husband (Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg Gotha) by her Nephew King Leopold II of Belgium (also a prince of the Saxe Coburg Gotha Saalfeld line). Unfortunatley Leopold’s policies as King of the Belgian "Congo Free State" resulted in " the effective enslavement of the native population, savage beatings, widespread killing, and frequent mutilation when the unrealistic [rubber plantation output] quotas were not met.
Estimates of the death toll range from two million to fifteen million.[4][5][6] Determining precisely how many people died is next to impossible as accurate records were not kept. Louis and Stengers state that population figures at the start of Leopold’s control are only "wild guesses", while E.D. Morel’s attempt and others at coming to a figure for population losses were "but figments of the imagination".[7]
Adam Hochschild devotes a chapter of his book, King Leopold’s Ghost, to the problem of estimating the death toll. He cites several recent lines of investigation, by anthropologist Jan Vansina and others, examining local sources from police records, religious records, oral traditions, genealogies, personal diaries, and "many others", which generally agree with the assessment of the 1919 Belgian government commission: roughly half the population perished during the Free State period. Since the first official census by the Belgian authorities in 1924 put the population at about 10 million, that implies a rough estimate of 10 million dead.[8]" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium -
Great photo! This photo has been used by http://www.frontier.ac.uk in a blog article
gapyearblog.org.uk/the-knowledge/2012/10/17/bucket-list-k…
A link back and credit has been provided.
Thanks for sharing!
Frontier
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