RHODESIA

RHODESIA (now Zimbabwe).

Definitive stamps.
Victoria Falls.
Last stamp in a set of 15, issued on 16.08.1978.
Face value: 2 Rhodesian dollars.
Design: D. Myles.
Printed by Mardon Printers, Salisbury.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 35 x 30 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 220.
- Scott No. 407.
- StampWorld No. 220.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 569.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 314.

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.

Rhodesia is a historical region in southern Africa whose formal boundaries evolved between the 1890s and 1980. Demarcated and named by the British South Africa Company (BSAC), which governed it until the 1920s, it thereafter saw administration by various authorities. It was bisected by a natural border, the Zambezi river. The territory to the north of the Zambezi was officially designated Northern Rhodesia by the company, and has been Zambia since 1964; that to the south, which the company dubbed Southern Rhodesia, became Zimbabwe in 1980. The term Rhodesia was first used to refer to the region by white settlers in the 1890s who informally named their new home after Cecil Rhodes, the company's founder and managing director.