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Lake Tanganyika eastern Shore in Kagongo Ward, Kigoma Region, Tanzania. Lake Tanganyika (/ ˌ t æ ŋ ɡ ə n ˈ j iː k ə,-ɡ æ n-/ TANG-gən-YEE-kə, -gan-; [4] Kirundi: Ikiyaga ca Tanganyika) is an African Great Lake. [5] It is the second-largest freshwater lake by volume and the second deepest, in both cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia.
A map of German East Africa, with Lake Tanganyika at the extreme left. The British naval force consisted of two 40-foot-long (12 m) motor boats. Spicer-Simson suggested they be named Cat and Dog, but the names were rejected by the Admiralty. [15] Spicer-Simson then suggested Mimi and Toutou as alternatives, which were accepted. As he later ...
Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake and is the second-deepest lake in the world and the second-biggest lake by volume. The lake borders four nations and is vital for trade and commerce for societies living along the lake. The lake is home to the oldest-running ferry in the world, MV Liemba [5] Lake Nyasa: 29,600 km 2 (11,400 sq mi) Tanzania
The series includes Lake Victoria, the second-largest freshwater lake in the world by area; Lake Tanganyika, the world's second-largest freshwater lake by volume and depth; Lake Malawi, the world's eighth-largest freshwater lake by area; and Lake Turkana, the world's largest permanent desert lake and the world's largest alkaline lake. [1]
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) ... Populated places on Lake Tanganyika (1 C, 5 P) T. Tanganyika Province ...
The UK held Tanganyika as a League of Nations mandate until the end of World War II after which it was held as a United Nations trust territory. In 1961, Tanganyika gained its independence from the UK as Tanganyika, joining the Commonwealth. It became a republic a year later. Tanganyika now forms part of the modern-day sovereign state of ...
British explorers Richard Burton and John Speke crossed the interior to Lake Tanganyika in June 1857. [4] In January 1866, the Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone, who crusaded against the slave trade, went to Zanzibar, from where he sought the source of the Nile, and established his last mission at Ujiji on the shores of Lake ...
The Malagarasi River is the largest tributary of Lake Tanganyika. Part of southwestern Tanzania drains into Lake Malawi , which empties south into the Zambezi River . The Southern Eastern Rift area of north-central Tanzania is made up of several endorheic basins , which have no outlet to the sea and drain into salt and/or alkaline lakes .