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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.
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.
The UK held Tanganyika as a League of Nations mandate until the end of World War II after which it was held as a United Nations trust territory. In 1961, Tanganyika gained its independence from the UK as Tanganyika, joining the Commonwealth. It became a republic a year later. Tanganyika now forms part of the modern-day sovereign state of ...
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Lake Tanganyika lies between what was then the Belgian Congo on the western side and German East Africa on the eastern side. By the start of the war, the Germans had two warships on Lake Tanganyika: the 60 t (59 long tons; 66 short tons) Hedwig von Wissmann, and the 45 t (44 long tons; 50 short tons) Kingani.
Tanganyika Territory (1916–1961), a former British territory which preceded the sovereign state; Tanganyika (1961–1964), a sovereign state, comprising the mainland part of present-day Tanzania; Tanzania Mainland, the current area of the former country state and territory of Tanganyika; Lake Tanganyika, an African Great Lake
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 ...
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