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Victoria, LakeLargest lake in Africa and third-largest freshwater lake in the world; area over 68,800 sq km/26,560 sq mi; length 410 km/255 mi; average depth 80 m/260 ft. It lies on the Equator at an altitude of 1,136 m/3,728 ft, bounded by Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. It is a source of the River Nile. The British explorer John Hanning Speke was the first European to see the lake in 1858, recognizing it as source of the White Nile; he named it after Queen Victoria. From 1875 the lake and its surrounding area were explored by Welsh-born US explorer Henry Morton Stanley.
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