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[[File:Victoria Nyanza.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Victoria Nyanza. The black line indicates Stanley's route.]]
'''LakeDanau Victoria''' ({{lang-luo|Nam Lolwe}}; {{lang-lg|'''Nnalubaale'''}}; also ''Ukerewe'')<ref name="WDL1">{{cite web |title=The Victoria Nyanza. The Land, the Races and their Customs, with Specimens of Some of the Dialects |url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2557 |publisher=[[World Digital Library]] |access-date=18 February 2013 |year=1899 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529091640/https://www.wdl.org/en/item/2557/ |archive-date=29 May 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web
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Danau, disebut ''Nam Lolwe'' di [[Dholuo]] dan ''Nnalubaale'' atau ''Ukerewe'' di [[Luganda]], setelahnya diganti nama [[Queen Victoria]] yang di eksplor oleh [[John Hanning Speke]], pertama-tama [[British people|Briton]] dalam dokumen laporannya. Speke menyelesaikannya pada tahun 1858, saat melakukan ekspedisi dengan [[Richard Francis Burton]] untuk menemukan [[Nile#Search for the source of the Nile|source of the Nile River]].<ref>{{cite news |title=How feud wrecked the reputation of explorer who discovered Nile's source |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/11/burton-speke-african-exploration-nile |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=29 December 2013 |first=Dalya |last=Alberge |date=11 September 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Moorehead |first=Alan |title=The White Nile |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/whitenile0000moor |chapter-url-access=registration |year=1960 |publisher=Harper & Row |isbn=978-0-06-095639-4 |chapter=Part One: Chapters 1–7}}</ref> This expedition was financially sponsored by the [[Royal Geographic Society]].
Dengan luas permukaan kira-kira {{cvt|59947|km2|sqmi}},<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Stuart |first=Hamilton |date=2016-10-05 |title=Shoreline, Lake Victoria, vector polygon, ~2015 |language=en |doi=10.7910/dvn/pwfw26 |publisher=Harvard Dataverse |type=Data Set}}</ref><ref name="auto3">{{Cite journal |last=Stuart |first=Hamilton |date=2018-11-13 |title=Lake Victoria Statistics from this Dataverse |language=en |doi=10.7910/dvn/fvjj4a |publisher=Harvard Dataverse |type=Data Set}}</ref> LakeDanau Victoria isadalah Africa'sdanau largestterluas lakedi Afrika byberdasarkan arealuas, theterbesar world'sdi largestdunia [[tropics|tropical]] lake,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/154134/ |title=Lake Victoria |first=Peter |last=Saundry}}</ref> anddan theterbesar world'skedua second-largestdi dunia [[fresh water]] lakedanau bydengan surfaceluas areapermukaan aftersetelahnya [[Lake Superior]] in North America.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/place/Lake-Victoria |title=Lake Victoria |website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]}}</ref> InDari terms ofsegi volume, LakeDanau Victoria isadalah theyang world'sdunia [[list of lakes by volume|ninth-largest continental lake]], containing about {{cvt|2424|km3|acre ft}} of water.<ref name="auto3"/><ref name="auto4">{{Cite journal |last1=Stuart |first1=Hamilton |last2=Taabu |first2=Anthony Munyaho |last3=Noah |first3=Krach |last4=Sarah |first4=Glaser |date=2018-05-17 |title=Bathymetry TIFF, Lake Victoria Bathymetry, raster, 2017, V7 |language=en |doi=10.7910/dvn/soeknr |publisher=Harvard Dataverse |type=Data Set}}</ref> Lake Victoria occupies a shallow [[Depression (geology)|depression]] in Africa. The lake has a maximum depth of between {{cvt|80 and 84|m|ft}}<ref name="auto3"/><ref name="auto4"/> and an average depth of {{cvt|40|m|ft}}.<ref name="UNEP99">United Nations, ''Development and Harmonisation of Environmental Laws Volume 1: Report on the Legal and Institutional Issues in the Lake Victoria Basin'', United Nations, 1999, page 17</ref> Its [[drainage basin|catchment area]] covers {{cvt|169858|km2|sqmi}}.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Stuart |first=Hamilton |date=2017-11-12 |title=Basin, Lake Victoria Watershed (inside), vector polygon, ~2015 |language=en |doi=10.7910/dvn/z5rmyd |publisher=Harvard Dataverse |type=Data Set}}</ref> The lake has a shoreline of {{cvt|7142|km|mi}} when digitized at the 1:25,000 level,<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Shoreline, Lake Victoria, vector line – 2015 – LakeVicFish Dataverse |doi=10.7910/dvn/5y5ivf|date=2016-10-11 |last=Hamilton |first=Stuart |publisher=Harvard Dataverse |type=Data Set}}</ref> with islands constituting 3.7% of this length.<ref name="Hickling61">{{cite book |author=C.F. Hickling |year=1961 |title=Tropical Inland Fisheries |url=https://archive.org/details/tropicalinlandfi0000hick |url-access=registration |location=London |publisher=[[Longmans]]}}</ref> The lake's area is divided among three countries: [[Kenya]] occupies 6% ({{cvt|4,100|km2|sqmi|disp=or}}), [[Uganda]] 45% ({{cvt|31,000|km2|sqmi|disp=or}}), and [[Tanzania]] 49% ({{cvt|33,700|km2|sqmi|disp=or}}).<ref>J. Prado, R.J. Beare, J. Siwo Mbuga & L.E. Oluka, 1991. ''A catalogue of fishing methods and gear used in Lake Victoria''. UNDP/FAO Regional Project for Inland Fisheries Development (IFIP), FAO RAF/87/099-TD/19/91 (En). Rome, Food and Agricultural Organization.</ref>
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