Lake Victoria

1. The largest lake in Africa, and the second-largest freshwater lake in the world, after Lake Superior. It is on the Uganda-Tanzania-Kenya border and is also called Victoria Nyanza.

Lake Victoria is a headwater reservoir for the Nile River.

It was explored by Henry Stanley in 1875.

Example Sentences

On Saturday his body will be transported to Kisumu, a city in western Kenya on the shores of Lake Victoria - his political stronghold.

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His change in opinion on formal education and medical interventions caused friction between the couple, who had six children together at their home in Mudulusia in Busia county, western Kenya, near Lake Victoria.

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Scientists say the Nile River and Lake Victoria, as well as its migration pattern, separated this giraffe from others.

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But it was for a funeral that villagers near Lake Victoria gathered last December, to bury a 30-year-old carpenter who was shot dead while celebrating Arsenal's victory over Manchester United.

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Dr Funk says higher rainfall has continued since then over the Lake Victoria basin that feeds into South Sudan, but it is not clear whether this is a permanent new pattern.

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