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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.
Faroe Islands, sometimes Faeroe Islands (Sheep Islands Islands – Faroese-oe means 'islands' (Faroese: oyar, Danish: øerne); the first part of the name (Før-, Fær-or Fär-) is thought to mean 'sheep'; see History of the Faroe Islands). Furzey Island, England ("Furzey" means "Furze island") Gateholm Island*, Wales ("Gateholm" means "Goat ...
Lake Tanganyika in Africa. Currently at an overflow level and therefore draining into the sea via the Lukuga River , but the lake level has been lower in the past, possibly as recently as 1800. Tularosa Basin and Lake Cabeza de Vaca in North America.
Populated places on Lake Tanganyika (1 C, 5 P) T. Tanganyika Province (4 C, 20 P) Tributaries of Lake Tanganyika (5 P) Pages in category "Lake Tanganyika"
Lake Kivu (2,220 square kilometres (860 sq mi), elevation 1,460 metres (4,790 ft)) empties into Lake Tanganyika via the Ruzizi River. Lake Tanganyika (32,900 square kilometres (12,700 sq mi), elevation 773 metres (2,536 ft)) is the largest and deepest of the Rift Valley lakes (more than 1,400 metres (4,600 ft)), and is the second deepest fresh ...
Lake Tanganyika. The black line indicates Stanley's route. On May 27, 1876, the party arrived in Ujiji on the shore of Lake Tanganyika, the village where Stanley had famously met Livingstone a few years before. [10] [6]: 399 Their objective was to survey the lake, seeking inlets and outlets. By July 31 the 930 miles (1,500 km) of the lake ...
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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 ...