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Ripon Falls

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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.
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The water from Ripon Falls falls into a narrow opening, which some define as the start of the River Nile.
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The Falls functioned as a natural outlet for Lake Victoria, until in 1954 the construction of
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was completed, effectively extending Lake Victoria and submerging Ripon Falls.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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A History of the Colonization of Africa by Alien Races
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Lake Victoria
Uganda
Nile
John Hanning Speke
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
Royal Geographical Society
Owen Falls Dam



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