Livingstone Statue (리빙스턴 동상). 빅토리아 폭포 (Victoria Falls. Mosi-Oa-Tunya)

Livingstone Statue (리빙스턴 동상).

빅토리아 폭포 (Victoria Falls. Mosi-Oa-Tunya). 잠비아 (Zambia)

 

Protected area

Dr. David Livingstone statue was presented to government of the republic of Zambia by total Zambia limited on 16th November, 2005.

 

The statue was erected on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the first European sighting of the Victoria Falls by Dr. David Livingstone on the 16th November, 1855; and to commemorate the centenary celebration of the founding of the town of Livingstone.

 

in 1851, he first heard of great waterfall. but it was only in 1855 that he set out to visit it in the company of indigenous people of the falls area, He spent a night on the Kalai Island a few kilometres upstream of the falls, having come down the river by canoe.

 

The next morning he set off in a small canoe to approach the thundering smoke. He landed on the biggest island on the lip of the falls, now called th Livingstone isalnd, where he obtained his first view of the falls. Of the surrounding area, he wrote; "the most wonderful sight I had witnessed in Africa. No one can imagine the beauty of the view from anything witnessed in England. It had never been seen before by European eyes, but scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight" (Livingstone 1857)

 

Please do nothing to cause damage or deface this statue.

 

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By National Heritage Conservation Commission.

 

 

 

 

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