NYANZA, VICTORIA

NYANZA, VICTORIA
   a large lake of Central Africa, 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 Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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