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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The Kariba Gorge hydro-electric scheme |
Author: | Prescott, J.R.V. |
Year: | 1959 |
Periodical: | Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie |
Volume: | 50 |
Issue: | 11 |
Pages: | 246-248 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Rhodesia and Nyasaland |
Subjects: | dams Kariba Dam |
Abstract: | Since 1955 the Kariba gorge, prior to that date a fine example of the results of superimposed dainage, has been associated with the construction of the hydro-electricity generating plant, which will probably be the largest in the world in terms of annual energy output. The present article contains information about the Rhodesias' Power Problem; Structure and geology; hydro-electricity Generation and distribution; Further consequences of the Kariba Scheme; Kariba Lake; Population Resettlement; Transport, Pushing and Irrigation; International aspects. Cartes, photographies. |