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  2. Lake Victoria - Wikipedia

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    Victoria Nyanza. The black line indicates Stanley's route. Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes.With a surface area of approximately 59,947 km 2 (23,146 sq mi), [6] [7] [page needed] Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, [8] and the world's second-largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North America. [9]

  3. African Great Lakes - Wikipedia

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    The African Great Lakes (Swahili: Maziwa Makuu; Kinyarwanda: Ibiyaga bigari) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift. The series includes Lake Victoria, the second-largest freshwater lake in the world by area; Lake Tanganyika, the world's second-largest freshwater lake by volume ...

  4. Ukerewe Island - Wikipedia

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    With an area of 530 km 2 (200 sq mi), it is also the largest island in Lake Victoria and the largest lake island in Africa. [ 2 ] Ukerewe Island is located in the Ukerewe District of Mwanza Region in the great lakes area of Tanzania , 45 km (28 mi) north of the city of Mwanza to which it is linked by ferry. [ 3 ]

  5. File:Shores of Lake Victoria, Habitat Uganda.jpg - Wikipedia

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    File:Shores of Lake Victoria, Habitat Uganda.jpg. ... This is an image with the theme "Home + Habitat in Africa" from: Uganda: Date: 13 February 2022, 18:26:41 ...

  6. Rift Valley lakes - Wikipedia

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    They are also referred to as the Central African lakes. Lakes Albert, Victoria, and Edward are part of the Nile River basin. Lake Victoria (elevation 1,134 metres (3,720 ft)), with an area of 68,800 square kilometres (26,600 sq mi), is the largest lake in Africa.

  7. Migingo Island - Wikipedia

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    The much larger Usingo Island is 200 metres (660 ft) to the east of the small white rectangle that is Migingo, and Pyramid Island, the largest of the three, is 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) due south of Migingo and 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) north of the Tanzanian border in Lake Victoria. On detailed maps, all three islands have been shown on the Kenyan ...

  8. Ripon Falls - Wikipedia

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    Ripon Falls at the northern end of Lake Victoria in Uganda was formerly considered the source of the river Nile.In 1862–63 John Hanning Speke was the first European to follow the course of the Nile downstream after discovering the falls that his intuition had marked as the source of the Nile.

  9. Musoma - Wikipedia

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    The city sits on the eastern edge of Lake Victoria, close to the International borders of Tanzania with Kenya and Uganda.Musoma is located approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi), directly south of the geographical point where the borders of the three East African countries intersect.