Murchison Falls
Uganda
Where the White Nile is forced through a rock gap less than ten metres wide before dropping over forty metres into a gorge, Murchison Falls is one of Uganda's most powerful natural spectacles. Samuel Baker, the first European to officially sight the falls, named them after the President of the Royal Geographical Society in the 19th century. Ernest Hemingway crashed a plane just downriver in 1954. The falls anchor Murchison Falls National Park and remain protected after Uganda rejected a hydropower project in 2019.
- Nearest water from center0.6 km
- Nearest mountain from center11.1 km