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- The Big Tree at Victoria Falls is a large baobab of the species Adansonia digitata in Zimbabwe, close to Victoria Falls. It has sometimes been called Livingstone's Tree. It measures 22.40 meters in girth and is 24 meters tall, being unusually large for a baobab. The explorer and missionary David Livingstone, who discovered Victoria Falls in 1854 and named it for his queen, carved his name into a baobab tree on an island (Garden Island) above the precipice of the waterfall. The Big Tree is located roughly 2 km from the river, the falls, and the island where Livingstone arrived in a makoro dugout canoe, made landfall, and wrote his records. Apart from being the best known, this tree is possibly the oldest and biggest baobab in the world. Some similar trees were lost by the flooding further downstream that occurred when Kariba Dam was finished in 1956. Unlike the animals rescued and saved by Operation Noah during the flooding, the trees had to stay where they were, many were bulldozed so they would not become underwater hazards. The Big Tree may be about 2000 years old based on girth and growth ring data collected from other trees. However, it is deeply incised and there is speculation that it may be three tree trunks (or trees) and it may be considerably younger. (en)
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- The Big Tree at Victoria Falls is a large baobab of the species Adansonia digitata in Zimbabwe, close to Victoria Falls. It has sometimes been called Livingstone's Tree. It measures 22.40 meters in girth and is 24 meters tall, being unusually large for a baobab. The explorer and missionary David Livingstone, who discovered Victoria Falls in 1854 and named it for his queen, carved his name into a baobab tree on an island (Garden Island) above the precipice of the waterfall. (en)
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