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Area code. 517. 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.
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).
04-39370. GNIS feature ID. 6840 [2] Website. www .lhcaz .gov. Lake Havasu City ( / ˈhɑːvəsuː /, HAH-və-soo) is a city in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 57,144, [3] up from 52,527 in 2010. [4] It is served by Lake Havasu City Airport .
The following is a list of the 100 largest lakes of the United States by normal surface area. The top twenty lakes in size are as listed by the National Atlas of the United States, a publication of the United States Department of the Interior. The area given is the normal or average area of the lake. The area of some lakes fluctuates substantially.
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 ...
The consensus is that water hyacinth entered Lake Victoria from Rwanda via the river Kagera, [2] probably in the 1980s. The hyacinth has since spread prolifically, due to a lack of natural predators, an abundance of space, agreeable temperature conditions, and abundant nutrients, including increasing heavy metal pollution in the lake. [3] [4]
Lake Victoria is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in the northeast portion of the township. Geography [ edit ] According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the township has a total area of 35.96 square miles (93.14 km 2 ), of which 33.93 square miles (87.88 km 2 ) is land and 2.03 square miles (5.26 km 2 ) (5.65%) is water.
Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake located fully in the United States; the other four are shared between the U.S. and Canada. It is the world's largest lake, by area, located fully in one country, and is shared, from west to east, by the U.S. states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan.