Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza (also known as Ukerewe and Nalubaale) is one of the
Great Lakes of
Africa.Lake Victoria is
68,800 square kilometres (26,560 mi²) in size, making it the continent's largest
lake, the largest tropical lake in the world, and the second largest
fresh water lake in the world in terms of surface area (
third largest if one considers
Lake Michigan-Huron as a single lake). Being relatively shallow for its size, with a maximum depth of 84 m (276 ft) and a mean depth of 40 m (131 ft), Lake Victoria ranks as
the seventh largest freshwater lake by volume, containing
2,750 cubic kilometres (2.2 million
acre-feet) of water. It is the source of the longest branch of the
Nile River, the
White Nile, and has a
water catchment area of 184,000 square kilometres (71,040 mi²). It is a biological hotspot with great biodiversity. The lake lies within an elevated
plateau in the western part of Africa's
Great Rift Valley and is subject to territorial administration by
Tanzania,
Uganda and
Kenya. The lake has a shoreline of 3,440 km (2138 miles), and has more than 3,000
islands, many of which are inhabited. These include the
Ssese Islands in Uganda, a large group of islands in the northwest of the Lake that are becoming a popular destination for tourists.
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