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Murchison Falls, also known as Kabarega Falls, is a waterfall between Lake Kyoga and Lake Albert on the White Nile River in Uganda. At the top of Murchison Falls, the Nile forces its way through a gap in the rocks, only wide, and tumbles , before flowing westward into Lake Albert. The outlet of Lake Victoria sends around 300 cubic meters per second (11,000 ft³/s) of water over the falls, squeezed into a gorge less than ten metres (30 ft) wide. Sir Samuel and Florence Baker were the first Europeans to find them.〔Dorothy Middleton, ‘Baker , Florence Barbara Maria, Lady Baker (1841–1916)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 11 Sept 2015 )〕 Baker named them after Sir Roderick Murchison, president of the Royal Geographical Society.〔(Encyclopædia Britannica online ) 〕 The falls lend their name to the surrounding Murchison Falls National Park. During the regime of Idi Amin in the 1970s the name was changed to Kabarega Falls, after the Omukama (King) Kabarega of Bunyoro, although this was never legally promulgated. The name reverted to Murchison Falls following the downfall of Idi Amin 〔(United Nations Environment Programme ) 〕 It is still sometimes referred to as Kabarega Falls.〔 Ernest Hemingway crashed a plane just downriver from Murchison Falls in 1954 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda Safaris, Murchison Falls Safari and Tours in Uganda )〕 ==Gallery== Murchison Falls 573x430.jpg|Murchison Falls Murchison Falls from above.jpg|Murchison Falls from above 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murchison Falls」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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