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In terms of volume, Lake Victoria is the world's ninth-largest continental lake, containing about 2,424 km 3 (1.965 × 10 9 acre⋅ft) of water. [7] [10] Lake Victoria occupies a shallow depression in Africa. The lake has an average depth of 40 m (130 ft) and a maximum depth of 80–81 m (262–266 ft).
View over Lake Turkana. The Rift Valley lakes are a series of lakes in the East African Rift valley that runs through eastern Africa from Ethiopia in the north to Malawi in the south, and includes the African Great Lakes in the south. These include some of the world's oldest lakes, deepest lakes, largest lakes by area, and largest lakes by volume.
Captain John Hanning Speke (4 May 1827 – 15 September 1864) was an English explorer and military officer who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa. He is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and was the first European to reach Lake Victoria (known to locals as Nam Lolwe in Dholuo and Nnalubaale or Ukerewe in ...
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 third-largest freshwater lake in the world by area; Lake Tanganyika, the world's second-largest freshwater lake by volume ...
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 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 ...
The consensus is that water hyacinth entered Lake Victoria from Rwanda via the river Kagera, [2] probably in the 1980s. The hyacinth has since spread prolifically, due to a lack of natural predators, an abundance of space, agreeable temperature conditions, and abundant nutrients, including increasing heavy metal pollution in the lake. [3] [4]
Victoria Basin forest–savanna mosaic. The Victoria Basin forest–grassland mosaic is an ecoregion that lies mostly in Uganda and extends into neighboring countries. The ecoregion is centered north and west of Lake Victoria, with an outlier on the border of Ethiopia and South Sudan. [3]