Lake Victoria
Speech parts
1. Lake Victoria - Noun
2. Lake Victoria - Proper noun
Meaning
the largest lake in Africa and the 2nd largest fresh water lake in the world; a headwaters reservoir for the Nile River
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Examples
A 16-year-old boy from Kamser Nyagowa village in Homa Bay, Lake Victoria, was seriously injured after entering the waters near his home in the latest attack.
According to witnesses, the boy had been in the water along with four companions on the shores of Lake Victoria when the incident happened.
At least 500 families from seven Sub-counties in Busia District are in urgent need of shelter and food after surging water volumes on Lake Victoria and floods razed their homes.
Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu said the cases were reported in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Mwanza City on the shores of Lake Victoria, and northern Kilimanjaro.
Between 1875 and 1876 Stanley succeeded in the first part of his objective, establishing that Lake Victoria had only a single outlet - the one located by John Hanning Speke on 21 July 1862.
He found modern-day Lake Zorkul, called it Lake Victoria, and proclaimed he had found the source.