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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, a naturally occurring shallow freshwater lake of the Murray catchment and part of the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the western Riverina region of south western New South Wales, Australia . The lake is located approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) downstream of the junction of the Murray and Darling rivers and draws its ...
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.
Lakes and other water bodies of Victoria (Australia) The following is a list of naturally occurring lakes and other water bodies in Victoria, Australia; outside the Greater Melbourne area, in alphabetical order, for those lakes with a surface area greater than 70 hectares (170 acres): Lake name. Type. Region. Primary inflow. Primary outflow. Area.
Lake Albert is the smaller lake to the right. / 35.450°S 139.150°E / -35.450; 139.150. Lake Alexandrina is a coastal freshwater lake [1] located between the Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island and Murray and Mallee regions of South Australia, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) south-east of Adelaide. The lake adjoins the smaller Lake Albert ...
The traditional set of Vicmap Topographic maps consist of approximately 850 1:25000 and 1:50000 hardcopy topographic map sheets printed and made available for sale to the general public. These map sheets cover 80% of Victoria. Most of the mapsheets are single format at a scale of 1:25000.
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 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]