The outlet of Lake Victoria sends around 300 m3/s (11,000 cu ft/s) of water over the falls, squeezed into a gorge less than 10 m (33 ft) wide.

Some historians believe that a party of Roman legionaries dispatched by Nero to explore the Nile may have reached Murchison Falls in 61 AD, but there is major controversy about the feasibility of what would have been a very difficult achievement.

[2] Baker named them after Roderick Murchison, the President of the Royal Geographical Society.

[3] Ernest Hemingway crashed a plane just downriver from Murchison Falls in 1954.

[5] In August 2019, Uganda rejected a hydropower project by South Africa’s Bonang Power and Energy in order to preserve the falls, one of the country's most lucrative tourism sites.