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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] 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. John Hanning Speke - Wikipedia

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    After numerous months of delays Speke reached Lake Victoria on 28 July 1862, and then travelled on the west side around Lake Victoria but only seeing it from time to time; but on the north side of the lake, Speke found the Nile flowing out of it and discovered the Ripon Falls. [6] Speke introduces Grant to the Queen-Dowager of Uganda

  4. Henry Morton Stanley - Wikipedia

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    Between 1875 and 1876 Stanley succeeded in the first part of his objective, establishing that Lake Victoria had only a single outlet, the one discovered by John Hanning Speke on 21 July 1862 and named Ripon Falls.

  5. Henry Morton Stanley's first trans-Africa expedition - Wikipedia

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    [10] [6]: 399 Their objective was to survey the lake, seeking inlets and outlets. By July 31 the 930 miles (1,500 km) of the lake perimeter was charted. Its main outlet was found to be the Lukuga River on the western shore. The depth of the lake was measured to be in excess of 1,280 feet (390 m). [6]: Vol. Two:40, 47

  6. 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.

  7. A Mysterious Lifeform Has Emerged From the Bottom of a Lake ...

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    The research team traveled to the lake in the summers of 2019 and 2020, and with the help of ground-penetrating radar, discovered that Lake Enigma—true to its name—contained a secret: liquid ...

  8. African Great Lakes - Wikipedia

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    The series includes Lake Victoria, ... In 1999, a 3,500,000-year-old skull was discovered there, named Kenyanthropus platyops, which means "flat-faced man of Kenya".

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