Ripon Falls
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ripon-falls-286-9287883
title:
Ripon Falls
text:
Ripon Falls at the northern end of Lake Victoria in Uganda was formerly considered the source of the river Nile. In 1862–63 John Hanning Speke was the first European to follow the course of the Nile downstream after discovering the falls that his intuition had marked as the source of the Nile. The water from Ripon Falls falls into a narrow opening, which some define as the start of the River Nile. He named the falls after George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, who was President of the Royal Geo
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Waterfall in Uganda
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripon_Falls
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date modified:
2024-01-19T14:59:46Z
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