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Lake Turkana is a unique feature of the East African landscape. Besides being a permanent desert lake, it is the only lake that retains the waters originating from two separate catchment areas of the Nile. The Lake Turkana drainage basin draws its waters mainly from Kenya Highlands and Ethiopian Highlands. A map of lake turkana
The lake was renamed Turkana in 1975 after the people that live to the west of its shores. Teleki's and von Höhnel's journey in southern Ethiopia also unveiled a smaller lake, Stefanie (named after Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, the prince's wife), now called Lake Chew Bahir. Though it is commonly stated that he discovered the body of water ...
A map of the Ilemi Triangle showing 1938 "red line" or "Wakefield Line", 1947 "blue line" and Sudan's 1950 patrol line (green). To the southeast of the Ilemi triangle, Ethiopian emperor Menelik laid claim to Lake Turkana and proposed a boundary with the British to run from the southern end of the lake eastward to the Indian Ocean, which was shifted northward when the British and Ethiopian ...
Flamingo Lake on Central Island in Lake Turkana. The oldest sedimentary records go back to the Cretaceous, including units previously informally referred to as the Turkana grits like the Lapurr Sandstone and are dominated by eastward flowing fluvial sequences draining into the Indian Ocean; [3] later formations from the Oligocene and Miocene are characterised by similar fluvial regimes that ...
Manemanya (GcJh5) is an archaeological site within the Lake Turkana basin in northern Kenya. It is a communal burial site built almost 5,000 years ago and is associated with the advent of pastoralism in eastern Africa during the Pastoral Neolithic period. [1] Manemanya is located 1 km east of Lesodok hill, on the western shores of Lake Turkana.
Lake Turkana and South Island viewed from the east from an airplane. On South Island can be found a N-S (north to south) trending volcanic ridge which rises to about a height of 300 m. Along this ridge can be found several volcanic cones , which some rise to about a height of 800 m ( above sea level , 320 m above the lake level).
The Chalbi Desert is located in between Mount Marsabit and Lake Turkana. [1] [2] The area is 110 km long and 10 to 20 km wide and it extends over 1oo,ooo km 2. [3] The area is composed of an ancient lake-bed, rocky surface and lava regions. [4] The ancient lake-bed of Chalbi used to be a shallow lake around 10,000 to 11,000 years ago. [5]
In 2011, 3.2 million year old stone tools were discovered at Lomekwi near Lake Turkana - these are the oldest stone tools found anywhere in the world and pre-date the emergence of Homo. [ 6 ] One of the most famous and complete hominid skeletons ever discovered was the 1.6-million-year-old Homo erectus known as Nariokotome Boy , which was found ...