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Definition of Lake victoria
1. Noun. The largest lake in Africa and the 2nd largest fresh water lake in the world; a headwaters reservoir for the Nile River.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lake Victoria
Literary usage of Lake victoria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"From lake victoria (Sor-Kul) in the Pamirs, which was originally ... the principal
glacial tributary of lake victoria forms, within the folds of the ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"Speke's journey in 1858 from Kazeh to lake victoria Nyanza, opened up an entirely
new district of Africa, and, succeeded as it was by his longer exploration ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"... when some of our friends, to whom we had looked for assistance in demarcating
the PILLAR NO. 1, AT EAST END OF lake victoria, ON WHICH THE RUSSIAN AND ..."
4. Through the Dark Continent: Or, The Sources of the Nile, Around the Great by Henry Morton Stanley (1879)
"... Nile — Burton on the Nile basin — Lake Tanganika — lake victoria — Speke,
Grant, and Cameron — The Livingstone River — The work before me. ..."
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