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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]
The lake provides a refuge for several species of fish that are no longer present in Lake Victoria. [6] In the past the Yala River flowed through the eastern 20% of the Yala Swamp into Lake Kanyaboli, then into the main swamp, and then through a small gulf into Lake Victoria. Today the eastern part of the swamp has been drained, and the river ...
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The chain of islands known as Buvuma Islands consists of more than fifty islands and is located a few kilometres off the northern shores of Lake Victoria, Uganda in the Napoleon Gulf. Buvuma is approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi), by water, south of the major city of Jinja , [ 1 ] and around 90 kilometres (56 mi), south-east of the national ...
Winam Gulf is a significant extension of northeastern Lake Victoria into western Kenya. Formerly known as Kavirondo Gulf , Nyanza Gulf , and Lake Nyanza Gulf , it is a shallow inlet and is connected to the main lake by Rusinga Channel (3 mi (4.8 km) wide), which is partly masked from the main body of the lake by islands.
YouTube Kids has faced criticism from advocacy groups, particularly the Fairplay Organization, for concerns surrounding the app's use of commercial advertising, as well as algorithmic suggestions of videos that may be inappropriate for the app's target audience, as the app has been associated with a controversy surrounding disturbing or violent ...
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.
Bukoba is a city with a population of 144,938 (2022 census), [2] situated in the northwest of Tanzania on the south-western shores of Lake Victoria.It is the capital of the Kagera region, and the administrative seat for Bukoba Urban District.