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Ripon Falls at the northern end of Lake Victoria in Uganda was formerly considered the source of the river Nile . In 1862–63 John Hanning Speke 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.[1]
The water from Ripon Falls falls into a narrow opening, which some define as the start of the River Nile.
He named the falls after George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon , who was President of the Royal Geographical Society during 1859–60.
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.
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^ Johnson, Harry Hamilton (1913). A History of the Colonization of Africa by Alien Races . Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 318. OCLC 491378170 .
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