Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world in terms of area and the largest in Africa as it is the largest tropical lake in the world. An area of 68 870 square kilometers and has resulted in the construction of D Owen Falls? On the Nile in 1949 and 1954 because of the high level of the water level in the lake at a rate of 90 cm to the height of 1135 m above sea level for exposure deepest point deep in the lake 82 m and is Lake Victoria, one of the African Great Lakes and overlooked by three countries, namely Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania Lake also includes about 3,000 each island has become a destination for many tourists.
This stems from the lake White Nile River, and was the first to speak about this fact the Arab traveler Idrisi about 1160 m and that left an accurate map of the lake. The name of the lake due to the British explorer John Speke Hanin, which is the first European explorers up the lake in 1858 and named it for the British Queen Anamak.
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