Old Drift cemetery

Local nameOld Drift Cemetery
LocationSouthern Province, Zambia

The Old Drift Cemetery is a small burial site near the Zambezi river in modern-day Zambia. It includes the graves of early European settlers and visitors to nearby Victoria Falls who died of causes such as malaria and is located in Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park. Settlers eventually left the area for higher ground, where the town of Livingstone was formed.A cast-iron plaque on the site reads:

THE OLD DRIFT CEMETERY

This cemetery forms the last resting place of a number of the early settlers who died at the old drift between the year 1898 and the time of the removal to Livingstone.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Drift_cemetery

Address Zambia

Coordinates -17°52'24.964" N 25°47'52.269" E

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