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|image_caption = Aerial photo of Ndola in 2017 by Gift Casey Nyambe | |image_caption = Aerial photo of Ndola in 2017 submitted by Gift Casey Nyambe | ||
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[[Image:NdolaSlaveTree.jpg|thumb|The Mukuyu Slave Tree (in Ndola, Zambia]] | [[Image:NdolaSlaveTree.jpg|thumb|The Mukuyu Slave Tree (in Ndola, Zambia]] | ||
* The '''Slave Tree''' or '''Mukuyu Slave Tree''' around which Arab slave traders held slave markets in the nineteenth century (a mukuyu tree is a kind of fig tree). It has fallen due to "termites".<ref name="Spectrum"/> | * The '''Slave Tree''' or '''Mukuyu Slave Tree''' around which Arab slave traders held slave markets in the nineteenth century (a mukuyu tree is a kind of fig tree). It has fallen due to "termites".<ref name="Spectrum"/> | ||
* [[Dag Hammarskjöld]] Memorial ten kilometres along the Ndola/Kitwe road commemorates the site where the then United Nations Secretary-General died in a plane crash on September 18, 1961 during the | * [[Dag Hammarskjöld]] Memorial ten kilometres along the Ndola/Kitwe road commemorates the site where the then United Nations Secretary-General died in a plane crash on September 18, 1961 during the Congo Crisis.<ref name="Spectrum"/> | ||
* '''Lake Chilengwa''' 14 km E of Ndola at 12°58' S 28°45' E, was formed by the collapse of rock into an underlying limestone cavern, and has local cultural significance.<ref name="Spectrum"/> | * '''Lake Chilengwa''' 14 km E of Ndola at 12°58' S 28°45' E, was formed by the collapse of rock into an underlying limestone cavern, and has local cultural significance.<ref name="Spectrum"/> | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||
{{Reflist}} | {{Reflist}} | ||
[[Category:History of Ndola]] | [[Category:History of Ndola]] | ||
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[[Category:Provincial capitals in Zambia]] | [[Category:Provincial capitals in Zambia]] | ||
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