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Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria is a freshwater lake in Africa, bordered by Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.
191 Questions
Does the prime meridian pass through lake Victoria?
One must assume that you're asking the question about Lake Victoria in Uganda, Africa.
It looks like Lake Victoria's major lat/long attribute is equatorial, since it lies 33 degrees and more east of the prime meridian.
From TravelJournals.net, here are the lat/long details:
Latitude: 0.0605556
Longitude: 33.50778
Latitude (DMS): 0° 3' 38 N
Longitude (DMS): 33° 30' 28 E
Which freshwater lake holds the most water lake baikal lake superior or lake Victoria?
Lake Baikal's volume is 23615 cubic kilometers and Lake Victoria's 2750 cubic kilometers. That makes Lake Baikal nearly ten times larger, volume-wise, and that is due to its extrordinary depth.
Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, is the world's deepest fresh water lake at 1,638 metres deep. It is 636 km long and is the world's sixth largest lake and 1,181 metres of it is below sea level.
It contains 20% of the world's fresh water which is so clear that divers suffer from vertigo.
What continent does Victoria belong to?
Victoria Lake is in Southern Africa. More specifically, it is located in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.
What is the depest lake in the world?
The second deepest lake is Lake Tanganyika. It is 1740 meters deep or 4823 feet deep.
Lake Victoria has the largest surface area of any body of fresh water in Africa, and second largest in the world. It is the source of the White Nile and provides a living to millions of Africans.
What effects of the Nile perch in lake Victoria have on people who live in Tanzania?
the introduction of nile perch affected the people who lived near lake victoria because the nile perch kept eating all of the little fishes which makes it hard for the people to gather food.
What is the distance between Mombasa and Kisumu?
The distance from Mombasa, Kenya, to Cairo, Egypt, is 2,410 air miles. That equals 3,879 kilometers or 2,094 nautical miles.
22209 sq. miles ____ Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, is the world's deepest fresh water lake at 1,638 metres deep. It is 636 km long and is the world's sixth largest lake and 1,181 metres of it is below sea level. It contains 20% of the world's fresh water which is so clear that divers suffer from vertigo. Based on sediment at the bottom, it is also the world's oldest lake at 25 million years, based on an ancient fault, the Olkhon Crevice. 2,000 species of plant and animal life have been identified in Lake Baikal, 75% of which appears nowhere else in the world.
What side of lake Victoria is the Great Rift Valley?
It is on a plateau between two major arms of the rift valley. It is not sunken like the valley system itself.
Why was the Nile Perch introduced to Lake Victoria?
No, because the nile perch ate other fish and was hard for people to catch fish because there are a few not that much as they expected there to be. Also people should have not introduse nile perch to lake viktoria because that is where lots of fish swim and people usually catch them and like I have said Nile perch eat fish and only a few people catch lots of fish some catch a few and other people get hungry or starve.
Which countries border lake victoria in africa?
3 countries border Lake Victoria. These are Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in East Africa.
Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania all border lake Victoria.
Why is there a market named after Queen Victoria?
Named by David Livingstone in 1855 in honour of Queen Victoria
The serengeti plain
There is a Victoria Park located along the Albany Highway in Western Australia, another Victoria Park in the province of Toronto, Canada, and yet another park of the same name in Sydney, Australia as well.
