Lake Victoria
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| Area | 68800 |
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| Locations | African Great Lakes |
| Max. depth | 81 m (266 ft) |
| Coordinates | 1°S 33°E / 1°S 33°E Coordinates: 1°S 33°E / 1°S 33°E |
| Fish | Nile perch |
| Nile tilapia | |
| Did you know | Geologically, Lake Victoria is relatively young – about 400,000 years old. |
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| ID | 644981 |
About Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was named after Queen Victoria by the explorer John Hanning Speke, the first Briton to document it. Speke accomplished this in 1858, while on an expedition with Richard Francis Burton to locate the source of the Nile River.
Sudan conflict: 'I'm drinking water from the River Nile'
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Tanzania Precision Air crash: 'I tried to save pilots but was knocked unconscious'
...By Athuman MtulyaBBC News Swahili, Dar es SalaamA fisherman who was one of the first responders at the site of Sunday s plane crash, which killed 19 people in Tanzania s Lake Victoria, has described how he tried to save the pilots stuck in the cockpit and how he nearly lost his life trying to rescue them...
Tanzanian plane crash-lands into Lake Victoria off Bukoba
...By Athuman MtulyaBBC News Swahili, Dar es SalaamA Tanzanian passenger plane has crashed into Lake Victoria as it attempted to land in the lakeside town of Bukoba...
Kenya's Talai clan petitions Prince William over land eviction
... To quash it, every member of the Talai clan was forcefully moved to detention in a tse-tse fly and mosquito infested valley near present day Lake Victoria...
Malaria completely stopped by microbe
... What this microbe is? The malaria-blocking bug, Microsporidia MB, was discovered through the study of the mosquitoes on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya...
