SILTING AND ISLAND GROWTH IN THE ZAMBEZI NEAR LIVINGSTONE

Abstract

The Northern Rhodesia Survey Department recently carried out a series of measurements of certain cross-sections of the Zambezi in the vicinity of Livingstone. The stretch of river over which the above were made is that known as the Regatta Course and extends between the top of Loando or Long Island downstream to the mouth of the Maramba River. This stretch is about three and a half miles southwest of Livingstone and two to four miles upstream from the Victoria Falls.