Ripon Falls at the northern
end of Lake
Victoria
in Uganda is often considered the source of the river
Nile. In 1862
John Hanning Speke, the first European to
follow the Nile far enough upstream to claim to have found its
source, named the falls after
George Robinson, 1st
Marquess of Ripon.
The Falls
functioned as a natural outlet for Lake Victoria, until in 1954 the
construction of Owen Falls Dam
was completed, effectively extending Lake Victoria
and submerging Ripon Falls.
Image:
http://robroy.dyndns.info/tsavo/images/p335.jpgIllustration
of Ripon Falls from The Man-Eaters of Tsavo And Other East African
Adventures by Lieut.-Col. J. H. Patterson, D.S.O.
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