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Lake Leelanau Monster A log with eyes [26] 1910 Lake Tianchi: Jilin, Ryanggang China North Korea: Asia: Lake Tianchi Monster: A large turtle-like animal, or a long black creature, some 20–30 meters long with a small head shaped like that of a horse. [27] Lake Tianchi is also known as Lake Chonji, and is partly located in North Korea. Lake Van ...
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]
Lake Naivasha, northwest of Nairobi, Kenya is becoming increasingly unnavigable. Water hyacinth, the world’s most widespread invasive species , is blanketing the lake, choking its fish and ...
British colonial administrator C. W. Hobley wrote, in 1913, that people living on both (east and west) sides of Lake Victoria told stories of the Lukwata. [6] He also reported that the "Ja Luo" people told stories of it attacking fishing canoes, and described his own uncertainty as to whether the stories, if real, could have had their origins in large pythons or some unknown animal. [6]
The Victoria robber (Brycinus jacksonii) is a species of fish in the family Alestidae. It is found in Kenya , Rwanda , Tanzania and Uganda . It occurs in Lake Victoria and some surrounding streams.
The silver cyprinid has a lake-wide distribution covering both inshore and offshore in Lake Victoria. It normally occurs between 0 and 20 m (0–66 ft) in depth, although both eggs and fry can be encountered as deep as 68 m (223 ft). The adult fish stay close to the bottom in daytime and rise up towards the surface at night.
The dingonek is a creature said to have been seen near Lake Victoria in 1907 by big game hunter John Alfred Jordan and members of his hunting party, as recounted by fellow big-game hunter Edgar Beecher Bronson in his 1910 memoir In Closed Territory.