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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).
Website. mmbc .bc .ca. The Maritime Museum of British Columbia ( MMBC) is a museum in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, that engages people with the maritime culture and history of the Pacific Northwest through rotating exhibits, educational and community-based programs, research services, and more. In 2015 the MMBC completed its relocation ...
Website. victoria .ca. Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237. The city of Victoria is the seventh most densely populated city in Canada with 4,406 ...
Beacon Hill Park. A view of the Goodacre Lake fountain and pond inside the park, seen with many dabbling ducks. Beacon Hill Park is a 75 ha (183 acre) park located along the shore of Juan de Fuca Strait in Victoria, British Columbia. The park is popular both with tourists and locals, and contains a number of amenities including woodland and ...
Designated. 2004. The Butchart Gardens is a group of floral display gardens in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada, located near Victoria on Vancouver Island. The gardens receive over a million visitors each year. The gardens have been designated a National Historic Site of Canada. [1]
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History. 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 ...
Shawnigan Lake is the name of a village on British Columbia 's Vancouver Island. The name Shawnigan is an adaptation of the Hul'qumi'num name Showe'luqun, for the lake and the village. It is part of Electoral Area B in the Cowichan Valley Regional District. [1] As of 2016, the permanent population of Shawnigan Lake is 8,558.