Lake Victoria: Mwanza, Henry Morton Stanley's First Trans-Africa Exploration, Masaka, White Nile, Mukono District, Rubondo Island Nat - nuovo libro

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Chapters: Mwanza, Henry Morton Stanley's first trans-Africa exploration, Masaka, White Nile, Mukono District, Rubondo Island National Park, Kalangala, Wakiso District, Bugiri District, Nalubaale Hydroelectric Power Station, Kitamilo, Kalangala District, Buvuma District, Rakai District, Masaka District, Mpigi District, Buvuma Island, Kampala District, Tanzania Ports Authority, Kalungu District, Lake Victoria ferries, Mwanza Region, MV Umoja, MV Bukoba, Ukerewe District, Ripon Falls, Winam Gulf, Owen Falls. 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 rivers that leave the lake, the White Nile (known as the "Victoria Nile" as it leaves the lake), flows out at Jinja, Uganda on the lake's north shore and the Katonga River flows out at Lukaya on the western shore connecting the lake to Lake George. Lake Victoria occupies a shallow depression in the East African Plateau, and has a maximum depth of 84 metres (276 ft) and an average depth of 40 metres (130 ft). Its catchment area covers 184,000 square kilometers (71,040 sq mi). The lake has a shoreline of 4,828 kilometres (3,000 mi), with islands constituting 3.7% of this length, and is divided among three countries: Kenya (6% or 4,100 km/1,600 sq mi), Uganda (45% or 31,000 km/12,000 sq mi) and Tanzania (49% or 33,700 km/13,000 sq mi). Lake Victoria supports Africa's largest inland fishery. Landsat 7 Imagery of Lake VictoriaLake Victoria has, during its geological history, gone through changes ranging from its present shallow depression, through to what may have been a series of much smaller lakes! Geological cores taken from its bottom