About the Lake Victoria

About the Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world in terms of area and the largest in Africa and is the largest tropical lake in the world. An area of ​​68870 square kilometers and has resulted in the construction of D Owen Falls on the Nile in 1949 and 1954 to increase the water level in the lake at a rate of 90 cm to the height of 1135 m above sea level and depth of the deepest point in the lake is 82 m and Lake Victoria, one of the lakes Great African and overlooked by three countries, namely Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania also has a lake about 3000 each island has become a destination for many tourists.

This stems from the lake White Nile River, and was the first to speak the truth about this Arab traveler Idrisi about 1160 AD, and which has left an accurate map of the lake. The name of the lake due to the British traveler Hanin John Speke, the first European to reach the lake traveler year 1858 and dubbed the British Queen at the

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