2. Dr David Livingstone was the first European in Victoria Falls.
He was a doctor and a missionary He was from Scotland and
named the waterfalls after the Queen Victoria of United
Kingdom and Empress of India.
The local name of Victoria Falls is «The smoke that thunders
(Mosi-oa-Tunya). The natives used this name because of the
spray from the drops of water, and the great noise of the
waterfall.
The Victoria Falls Bridge crosses the Zambezi River. As the river is
the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, the bridge links the
two countries.
Victoria Falls are beautiful and you can see the rainbow during the
day and the moonbow at night when it is full moon.
You can visit the falls in a jetboat or from the air in a helicopter
You can practise adventure sports like bungee jumping from the
bridge.
VICTORIA FALLS
3. 1. NAME: Dr David Livingstone
2. BIRTH DATE: 19th March 1813
3. NATIONALITY: Scottish
4. JOBS: Scientist and a missionary doctor in Africa
5. EXPEDITIONS: Southern and Central Africa.
6. RELEVANCE: First European in Victoria Falls (1855)
7. FAMILY: Six children
8. PLACE and YEAR OF DEATH: Rhodesia, Africa 1873.
4. His name was Dr David Livingstone
He was born on the 19th March 1813.
He was Scottish. He was from Scotland.
He was a scientist and a missionary doctor in Africa.
He went to Southern and Central Africa.
He was the first European in Victoria Falls in 1855.
He had six children.
He died in Rhodesia, Africa in 1873, when he was sixty
years old.
