Nightmare Along the River Nile by S.E. Nelson

It was formed when westward-flowing rivers were dammed by an upthrown crustal block. Geologically, Lake Victoria is relatively young at about 400,000 years old. Invasive fish, such as the Nile perch, have driven many endemic species to extinction. The lake is home to many species of fish which live nowhere else, especially cichlids. Though having multiple local language names ( Dholuo: Nam Lolwe Luganda: 'Nnalubaale Kinyarwanda: Nyanza also Ukerewe), the lake was renamed after Queen Victoria by the explorer John Hanning Speke, the first Briton to document it in 1858, while on an expedition with Richard Francis Burton. 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. The lake has an average depth of 40 m (130 ft) and a maximum depth of 80–84 m (262–276 ft).

Lake Victoria occupies a shallow depression in Africa. In terms of volume, Lake Victoria is the world's ninth-largest continental lake, containing about 2,424 km 3 (1.965 ×10 9 acre⋅ft) of water. With a surface area of approximately 59,947 km 2 (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. Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. The black line indicates Stanley's route.

Nightmare Along the River Nile by S.E. Nelson