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Lake Tanganyika eastern Shore in Kagongo Ward, Kigoma Region, Tanzania. Lake Tanganyika (/ ˌ t æ ŋ ɡ ə n ˈ j iː k ə,-ɡ æ n-/ TANG-gən-YEE-kə, -gan-; [4] Kirundi: Ikiyaga ca Tanganyika) is an African Great Lake. [5] It is the second-largest freshwater lake by volume and the second deepest, in both cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia.
It contains five species of freshwater fish endemic to Lake Tanganyika. They are small fish with reduced swim bladders that are found near the bottom in the turbulent, coastal surf zone. [1] They are mouthbrooders. [1]
British explorers Richard Burton and John Speke crossed the interior to Lake Tanganyika in June 1857. [4] In January 1866, the Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone, who crusaded against the slave trade, went to Zanzibar, from where he sought the source of the Nile, and established his last mission at Ujiji on the shores of Lake ...
Callochromis is a genus of cichlids native to shallow, sandy bottom areas of Lake Tanganyika in East Africa.As sandsifters, all species eat sand-dwelling invertebrates. Unlike many other sandsifters, Callochromis species are somewhat aggressive, especially when bre
The Lake Tanganyika sardine (Limnothrissa miodon) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Dorosomatidae which was endemic to Lake Tanganyika but which has now been introduced to other lakes in Africa as a food source. [2] It is one of two species within the genus Limnothrissa, the other being the Lake Mweru endemic, L. strappersi.
Katavi Region is located between Longitude 30° and 33° East of Greenwich and Latitudes 5° 15° to 7° 03° South of the Equator. It is bordered to the north by the Urambo District (Tabora), to the east by the Sikonge District (Tabora), to the east by the Chunya District (Mbeya), to the south by the Sumbawanga District (Rukwa), to the south-east by the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
Scientists thought that Lake Enigma was frozen from top to bottom. Then they discovered that water—and mysterious lifeforms—existed 11 meters below the surface.
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