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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]
Therefore, mean depth figures are not available for many deep lakes in remote locations. [9] The average lake on Earth has the mean depth 41.8 meters (137.14 feet) [9] The Caspian Sea ranks much further down the list on mean depth, as it has a large continental shelf (significantly larger than the oceanic basin that contains its greatest depths).
Even though Lake Victoria is in New South Wales, it is operated by SA Water, the South Australian water authority, on behalf of River Murray Water, a division of the Murray-Darling Basin Commission. [2] When full, the lake holds 677 GL, covers an area of 12,200 ha, and has a maximum depth of about 5.5 m. [1]
This article lists lakes with a water volume of more than 100 km 3, ranked by volume.The volume of a lake is a difficult quantity to measure. [1] Generally, the volume must be inferred from bathymetric data by integration.
Speke's eyes were still bothering him and he only saw a small part of the southern end of the lake and his view was blocked by islands in the lake so he could not judge the size of the lake well. However, Speke did estimate the elevation of Lake Victoria at 4000 feet by observing the temperature at which water boiled at that level. [6] (This ...
The Lake Victoria CDP has a total area of 1.05 square miles (2.72 km 2), of which 0.82 square miles (2.12 km 2) is land and 0.23 square miles (0.60 km 2) (21.9%) is water. [4] The Lake Victoria CDP consists of a residential development surrounding a lake of the same name in eastern Victor Township.
Lake Victoria is a 139-hectare (340-acre) shallow saline lake on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria in Australia, close to the township of Point Lonsdale and part of the Lonsdale Lakes Nature Reserve administered by Parks Victoria.
Kaawa managed to return to port but a few hours after the collision Kabalega sank in 150 feet (46 m) of water [4] about 8 nautical miles (15 km) southeast of the Ssese Islands [3] and about 50 nautical miles (93 km) from the Kuye Islands. [4] Kabalega was a train ferry. Her cook, George Saka, reported that at about 0300 hrs.