SOUTHERN RHODESIA

SOUTHERN RHODESIA (now, Zimbabwe).

Definitive stamps.
Victoria Falls.
Stamp issued in 1935.
Face value: 2 pence.
Printing: Recess.
Printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd, London.
Size: 39 x 28 mm.

Catalogues
- Scott No. 37b.
- StampWorld No. 36.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 35.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 35.

Victoria Falls (in Sotho language, Mosi-oa-Tunya, "The Smoke That Thunders"; in Tonga language, Shungu Namutitima, "Boiling Water") is a waterfall on the Zambezi River located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, and is one of the world's largest waterfalls due to its width of 1,708 m (5,604 ft). The Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone is believed to have been the first European to view the Victoria Falls on November 16, 1855, from what is now known as Livingstone Island, one of two land masses in the middle of the river, immediately upstream from the falls near the Zambian shore. Livingstone named his sighting in honour of Queen Victoria. The 101 m (331 ft) tall the Eastern Cataract is located in the territory of Zambia. Victoria Falls were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1989, protecting an area of 8,780 ha. Since 2010 they are integrated into the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area.

The Colony of Southern Rhodesia was a land-locked self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa, established in 1923 and consisting of British South Africa Company territories lying south of the Zambezi River. Stamps with this denomination were issued from 1924 to 1964, the year in which they began to be issued with the denomination of Rhodesia until 1978. From 1980 the stamps of the new independent republic appeared with the name of Zimbabwe.