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With a surface area of approximately 59,947 km 2 (23,146 sq mi), [6][7] Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, [8] and the world's second-largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North America. [9] In terms of volume, Lake Victoria is the world's ninth-largest continental lake ...
Victoria Lake. Location. Newfoundland. Coordinates. 48°19′18″N 57°20′41″W / 48.32167°N 57.34472°W / 48.32167; -57.34472. Basin countries. Canada. Victoria Lake is a lake located in the west-central interior of the island of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The lake is south-east of ...
The cichlid Haplochromis thereuterion is endemic to Lake Victoria.. In 1927-1928 Michael Graham conducted the first ever systematic Fisheries Survey of Lake Victoria.The dominant species in the 1927–8 survey catches were two, now critically endangered tilapia species, the 'Ngege' or Singida tilapia (Oreochromis esculentus) and Victoria tilapia (O. variabilis).
The highest point of Victoria Island is 655 m (2,149 ft) in the Shaler Mountains map17 in the north-central region. Located in the southeast, just north of Cambridge Bay, is Tahiryuaq (formerly Ferguson Lake) map18. With an area of 562 km 2 (217 sq mi), it is the largest lake on the island. [19]
Pop. density. 65,500/km 2 (169600/sq mi) Migingo is a 2,000- square-metre (0.49- acre; 0.20- hectare) island in Kenya on Lake Victoria. [ 3 ] The island was the center of a low-level territorial dispute between Kenya and Uganda and is extremely densely populated. [ 1 ] Migingo is a main source of fish to the Kenyan people.
The African Great Lakes (Swahili: Maziwa Makuu; Kinyarwanda: Ibiyaga bigari) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift. 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 ...
The Kagera River, also known as Akagera River, or Alexandra Nile, is an East African river, forming part of the upper headwaters of the Nile and carrying water from its most distant source. [1]: 167 With a total length of 597 km (371 mi) from its source located in Lake Rweru in Rwanda. The section of river named Kagera begins in Burundi ...
Lake Victoria. Lake Victoria is a 139-hectare (340-acre) shallow saline lake on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria in Australia, close to the township of Point Lonsdale and part of the Lonsdale Lakes Nature Reserve administered by Parks Victoria. [2]