VICTORIA NYANZA

VICTORIA NYANZA is a large lake of East Central Africa. It is located on the Equator, in the Nile basin, at the sources of the river, and S. of the preceding, equal in extent to the area of Scotland, at an elevation of 3890 ft.; discovered by Captain Speke in 1858, and sailed round by Stanley in 1875.

The lake is 300 m. long and 20 m. broad and is regarded as the head-source of the Nile, the waters of it flowing through Albert Nyanza 80 m. to the N., between which two lakes lies the territory of Uganda.