Livingstone, David (1813–1873)
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An aerial shot of Victoria Falls, situated on the Zambia–Zimbabwe border. The waterfall was named after Queen Victoria by David Livingstone, but the local African name is Mosi-ao-tunya, ‘smoke that thunders’.
Scottish missionary explorer. In 1841 he went to Africa, reaching Lake Ngami in 1849. He followed the Zambezi to its mouth, saw the Victoria Falls in 1855, and went to East and Central Africa 1858–64, reaching Lakes Shirwa and Nyasa. From 1866, he tried to find the source of the River Nile, and reached Ujiji in Tanganyika in November 1871. British explorer Henry Stanley joined Livingstone in Ujiji.
Livingstone not only mapped a great deal of the African continent but also helped to end the Arab slave trade.
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