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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).
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. Location and features. The lake is separated from Bass Strait by a narrow strip of
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.
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 Mara River basin covers a surface of 13,504 km 2, of which approximately 65% is located in Kenya and 35% in Tanzania. [1] From its sources in the Kenyan highlands, the river flows for about 395 km and originates from the Mau Escarpment and drains into Lake Victoria. The basin can be roughly divided into four land use and/or administrative ...
Kisumu ( / kiːˈsuːmuː / kee-SOO-moo) [4] is the third-largest city in Kenya after the capital, Nairobi, and Mombasa. [5] It is the second-largest city after Kampala in the Lake Victoria Basin. The city has a population of slightly over 600,000. The metro region, including Maseno and Ahero, has a population of 1,155,574 people (560,942 males ...
Jinja is a major station on the Uganda Railway and is a port for Lake Victoria ferries. [citation needed] Jinja Airport, a small civilian and military airport, is located at Kimaka, about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) north of Jinja's central business district.