Lake Victoria
About Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. With a surface area of approximately 59,947 km2 (23,146 sq mi), Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, and the world's second-largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North America. In terms of volume, Lake Victoria is the world's ninth-largest continental lake, containing about 2,424 km3 (1.965×109 acre⋅ft) of water. Lake Victoria occupies a shallow depression in Africa. The lake has an average depth of 40 m (130 ft) and a maximum depth of 80–81 m (262–266 ft). Its catchment area covers 169,858 km2 (65,583 sq mi). The lake has a shoreline of 7,142 km (4,438 mi) when digitized at the 1:25,000 level, with islands constituting 3.7% of this length.
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In Lake Victoria, about 16,000 years ago, there were three species of cichlid, which is a kind of fish.
from 534: No Such Thing As The SS Enterprise, 2024-06-06 at 00:52:12 · read transcript
Other times Lake Victoria came up
There was one of those in Coney Island as well. We talked about Coney Island the other week. There was one that was in Coney Island in 1895. but this one in the international exhibition in 1906, it went into Lake Victoria in Christchurch, was the place it ended up. This exhibition was so popular that 1,967,682 people visited it at a time when the whole population of New Zealand was 975,000.
No Such Thing As Tarzan In A Waterpark, 2021-05-21 · listen
We talked about Coney Island the other week. There was one that was in Coney Island in 1895. This one in the international exhibition in 1906, it went into Lake Victoria in Christchurch was the place it ended up. It was this exhibition was so popular that 1,967,682 people visited it at a time when the whole population of New Zealand was 975,000. More than twice as many people went to this as lived in the whole country.
374: No Such Thing As Tarzan In A Waterpark, 2021-05-21 · listen
Every animal goes, it's like if something's on the turn. It's like I think it's okay to eat, but it might be that poisonous one. It might be an ant. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. This spider is only found in Lake Victoria. How big Lake Victoria is? Big. It's so big. It's a big. It's six times the size of Yorkshire. Is that big or smaller than that manhole cover?
No Such Thing As The SS Enterprise, 2024-06-06 · listen
Coordinates: -1.0000, 33.0000