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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).
FIPS code. 26-45190 [3] GNIS feature ID. 2583748 [2] Lake Victoria is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Clinton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located in Victor Township. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 930.
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.
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]
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.
White Nile. / 2.28222°S 29.33111°E / -2.28222; 29.33111. The White Nile ( Arabic: النيل الأبيض an-nīl al-'abyaḍ) is a river in Africa, the minor of the two main tributaries of the Nile, the larger being the Blue Nile. [4] The name "White" comes from the clay sediment carried in the water that changes the water to a pale ...
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 ...
Lake Corangamite / k ə ˈ r æ ŋ ɡ ə m aɪ t /, a hypersaline endorheic lake, is located near Colac in the Lakes and Craters region of the Victorian Volcanic Plains of south-west Victoria, Australia. The lake's salinity levels have increased dramatically as the lake level has dropped in recent decades. It is Australia's largest permanent ...