About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Lake Nakuru, Lake Turkana, Lake Victoria, Lake Baringo, Kerio River, Mwanza, Koobi Fora, Henry Morton Stanley's first trans-Africa exploration, Turkana Boy, Masaka, White Nile, Mukono District, Rubondo Island National Park, Kalangala, Wakiso District, Bugiri District, Nalubaale Hydroelectric Power Station, Kitamilo, Lake Naivasha, Kalangala District, Buvuma District, Lake Bogoria, Rakai District, Masaka District, Loiyangalani, Lake Elmenteita, Lake Magadi, Mpigi District, Buvuma Island, Kampala District, Tanzania Ports Authority, Kalungu District, Lake Victoria ferries, Sibiloi National Park, Lake Chew Bahir, Mwanza Region, Lake Logipi, Lake Turkana National Parks, Ileret, MV Umoja, Lake Kamnarok, Njoro River, MV Bukoba, Namoratunga, Ukerewe District, Ripon Falls, Winam Gulf, Eliye Springs, Turkwel River, El Molo, Kalokol, List of lakes in Kenya, Owen Falls, Lake Chala. Excerpt: Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza (also known as Ukerewe, The Eye of the Rhino, Nalubaale, Sango, or Lolwe) is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was named for Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, by John Hanning Speke, the first European to visit this lake. With a surface area of 68,800 square kilometres (26,600 sq mi), Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, and it is the largest tropical lake in the world. Lake Victoria is the world's second largest freshwater lake by surface area (only Lake Superior in North America is larger). In terms of its volume, Lake Victoria is the world's eighth largest continental lake, and it contains about 2,750 cubic kilometers (2.2 billion acre-feet) of water. Lake Victoria receives most of its water from direct precipitation or from thousands of small streams. The largest stream flowing into this lake is the Kagera River, the mouth of which lies on the lake's western shore. There are two river...
