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  2. Lake Victoria - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Lake Victoria (Victoria) - Wikipedia

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    Lake Victoria (Victoria) /  38.27278°S 144.58917°E  / -38.27278; 144.58917. 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]

  4. Rift Valley lakes - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Gippsland Lakes - Wikipedia

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    Lake King from Shaving Point in Metung Lake Tyers, Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, Australia Trio of pelicans at Lake Tyers, Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, Australia. The Gippsland Lakes are a network of coastal lakes, marshes and lagoons in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia covering an overall area of about 354 km 2 (137 sq mi) [2] between the rural towns of Lakes Entrance, Bairnsdale and Sale.

  6. List of lakes by depth - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, mean depth figures are not available for many deep lakes in remote locations. [9] The average lake on Earth has the mean depth 41.8 meters (137.14 feet) [9] The Caspian Sea ranks much further down the list on mean depth, as it has a large continental shelf (significantly larger than the oceanic basin that contains its greatest depths).

  7. Nile - Wikipedia

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    The Mellut Basin is nearly 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) deep at its central part. ... The expedition began at the White Nile's beginning at Lake Victoria in Uganda, on 17 ...

  8. Dartmouth Dam - Wikipedia

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    Dartmouth Dam is a large rock-fill embankment dam with an uncontrolled chute spillway across the Mitta Mitta, Gibbo and Dart rivers, the Morass Creek and a number of small tributaries. The dam is located near Mount Bogong in the north-east of the Australian state of Victoria. The dam's purpose includes irrigation, the generation of hydro ...

  9. Lake Superior - Wikipedia

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    Lake Superior deepest point [4] on the bathymetric map. [1] Lake Superior has a surface area of 31,700 square miles (82,103 km 2), [7] which is approximately the size of South Carolina or Austria. It has a maximum length of 350 statute miles (560 km; 300 nmi) and maximum breadth of 160 statute miles (257 km; 139 nmi). [8]