Livingstone Island

The Team plans to land on Livingstone island on the 16th November 2005, on the same day as Dr. David Livingstone, one and a half centuries later.

Livingstone Island is not much more than a lump of rock but it earns its grandiose name for two things; it separates the Main Falls from Horseshoe Falls and Rainbow Falls, the highest cataract. And then, of course, there is David Livingstone. He reached the Falls from upriver and was rowed across to the island that would bear his name by local Makalolo oarsmen. His notebook records his first impressions; ‘’On sights as beautiful as this, angels in their flight must have gazed.’’ Hence the name of the popular plane flip over the falls, Flight of Angels. The Scottish missionary promptly named the newest wonder of the western world after his Queen, planted a few peach and apricot stones and carved his initials and the date on a nearby tree. Today, from the western edge of the falls, his statue gazes in perpetual wonder towards the island upon which he first stood.