Who discovered the Victoria Falls in 1855?
Big Tree at Victoria Falls (including a group of four) in the City Parks Department in Mutare. Big Tree at Victoria Falls The Big Tree - is a large baobab of the species "Adansonia digitata" in Zimbabwe, close to the Victoria Falls. It has sometimes been called Livingstone's tree erroneously. Unusually for a baobab it has both an impressive girth and is very tall. It measures 22.40 metres in girth (2004) and is 24 metres tall (1985). The explorer and missionary David Livingstone who discovered the Victoria Falls for the British Empire (naming the Falls for his queen) carved his name in 1855 into a
USS Victoria (1855) USS Victoria (1855) USS "Victoria" (1855) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. "Victoria" was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. "Victoria"—a wooden steamer built at Kensington, Pennsylvania, in 1855—was purchased by the Union Navy at New York City on 26 December 1861 for blockade duty during the Civil War; and was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 13 March 1862, Lt. Comdr. George A. Stevens in command. Upon her commissioning, "Victoria" was assigned to Rear Admiral Louis M. Goldsborough's