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Definition of Lake tanganyika

1. Noun. The longest lake in the world in central Africa between Tanzania and Congo in the Great Rift Valley.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lake Tanganyika

Literary usage of Lake tanganyika

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1875)
"Cameron, announcing that he had circumnavigated lake tanganyika, ... Whenever Lake Tanganyika was mentioned, it should be remembered that its first ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1880)
"... from Lake Nyassa to lake tanganyika. z following letter from Mr. Thomson, commanding the Society's ¡t African Expedition, was received, via Mozambique, ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"Between lake tanganyika and ... in a northwesterly direction until it reaches the large Malagarasi river (by far the greatest feeder of lake tanganyika), ..."

4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1902)
"... of these we hope shortly to give a summary. In the present number we confine ourselves to the work of British officials. I. A VOYAGE ON lake tanganyika. ..."

5. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"... one, under the direction of Father Pascal, will establish a vicarial apostolique on the banks of lake tanganyika ; the second party, whose head is said ..."

6. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1865)
"lake tanganyika, Ptolemy s Western Lake-Reservoir of the Nile. By CAPTAIN BF BURTON. THE author commenced by expressing his recognition of the many noble ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"On ascertaining the death of Livingstone he proceeded to lake tanganyika, where he secured Livingstone's map and sent it to Zanzibar. ..."

8. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1882)
"lake tanganyika. By EDW. COODE HÖRE, Master Mariner. (Head at the Evening Meeting, November 28th,.) Maps, p. C4. IN March I was appointe! to tho London ..."

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