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The Kariba Lake

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Reay H. N. Smithers
Reay H. N. Smithers
Affiliation:
Director, National Museums of Southern Rhodesia
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On 3rd December, 1958, the two ports in the Kariba Dam, through which the whole volume of the great Zambesi River was then flowing were closed. This heralded not only a major step in this vast engineering project but also the commencement of the greatest environmental upset ever to befall a population of animals and birds within the African continent, in the memory of man.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , April 1959 , pp. 21 - 24
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1959