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	Albert, Lake - ninemsn Encarta
		Albert, Lake also Albert Nyanza, lake, east central Africa, in western Uganda and to the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		Located in the Rift Valley, Lake Albert is elliptical in shape, about 160 km (100 mi) long and about 35 km (22 mi) at the widest part, with no depth exceeding 17 m (55 ft); the area is about 5,350 sq km (2,065 sq mi).
		Lake Albert was sighted in 1864 by the British explorer Sir Samuel Baker, who named it in honour of Albert, prince consort of Great Britain.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571968/Albert_Lake.html (203 words)

	Geography of Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Africa is a continent comprised of 61 political territories (including 53 countries), representing the largest of the three great southward projections from the main mass of Earth's surface.
		Africa is thus composed of two segments at right angles, the northern running from east to west, the southern from north to south, the subordinate lines corresponding in the main to these two directions.
		Lakes of the broad type are of moderate depth, the deepest sounding in Lake Victoria being under 50 fathoms (90 m).
	www.a013.com /wiki/Geography_of_Africa (3279 words)

	Lake Albert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lake Albert is located in the centre of the continent, on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).
		Lake Albert is the northernmost of the chain of lakes in the Great Rift Valley; it is about 160 km (100 mi) long and 30 km (19 mi) wide, with a maximum depth of 51 m (168 ft), and a surface elevation of 619 m (2,030 ft) above sea level.
		Lakes of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Albert (330 words)

	Great Lakes Region (Africa) Encyclopedia Article @ LakeLocale.com (Lake Locale) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They include Lake Victoria, the second largest fresh water lake in the world in terms of surface area, and Lake Tanganyika, the world's second largest in terms of volume as well as the second deepest.
		Some call only Lake Victoria, Lake Albert, and Lake Edward the Great Lakes as they are the only three that empty into the White Nile.
		Lake Tanganyika and Lake Kivu both empty into the Congo River system, while Lake Malawi is drained by the Shire River into the Zambezi.
	www.lakelocale.com /encyclopedia/Great_Lakes_region_(Africa) (653 words)

	AllRefer.com - Albert, Lake, Africa (African Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Albert, Lake, or Albert Nyanza[nIan´zu, nyAn´zA] Pronunciation Key, 2,064 sq mi (5,346 sq km), on the Congo (Kinshasa)–Uganda border, E central Africa.
		The lake is c.100 mi (160 km) long and c.19 mi (30 km) wide, with a maximum depth of 168 ft (51 m).
		Lying in the Great Rift Valley, 2,030 ft (619 m) above sea level, Lake Albert receives the Semliki River and the Victoria Nile and is drained by the Albert Nile, which becomes the Bahr-el-Jebel when it enters Sudan.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Albert-L.html (215 words)

	lakevic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Africa is home to the oldest inhabited territory on earth, and it is believed the human race originated from what is now this continent.
		The lake's shoreline is long (about 3,500 km) and convoluted, enclosing innumerable small, shallow bays and inlets, many of which include swamps and wetlands which differ a great deal from one another and from the lake itself.
		In Lake Victoria, DNA studies revealed that all the Malawian and Victorian species are descended from one lineage found in the rivers and streams of east Africa.
	www.wetpetz.com /lakevic.htm (1175 words)

	Predator-prey relationships, population dynamics and fisheries productivities of large african lakes
		Lake Victoria was formed by tectonic movements during the mid-Pleistocene (Fryer and Iles, 1972).
		Hamblyn (1966), when comparing the fish faunas of Lakes Albert and Rudolf (where Lates is endemic) with those of Lake Victoria and Kioga (where it is non-endemic), concluded that a large number of small species existed in the latter lakes compared with a small number of large species in the former lakes.
		Symposium in the Hydrobiology and Fisheries of Lake Rudolf.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/005/S7047E/S7047E05.htm (3949 words)

	Gravity survey: Lakes Albert, George and Edward
		Previous modeling studies of the Lake Albert basin either overestimated the flexural strength of the extended lithosphere and/or underestimated the crustal extension.
		Shown are the main structural components of the Albertine rift system; the White Nile, Lake Albert, Semliki, Lake George and Lake Edward basins, the Ruwenzori mountains, and the asymmetrically distributed flanking topography to the rift basins.
		The white circles, and the boat trackmap on Lake Albert, identify existing and new land and lake data in the region.
	www.ldeo.columbia.edu /karner/descriptions/eafrica.word.html (623 words)

	Malawi and Victorian Cichlids
		Lake Victoria is connected to the Nile River and is in fact the source of the Nile.
		Most hobbyists think of Lake Victoria as one of the rift lakes (like Lake Malawi and Tanganyika) but it is actually a much younger lake that is located in the valley known as the Victorian basin.
		As the population increased around the lake contaminants from human and industrial waste were also introduced into the lake.
	www.african-cichlid.com /Lake_Victoria_Map.htm (356 words)

	RIVER and LAKE
		Lake Edward is one of the great lakes of Africa lying in the western Rift Valley.
		The Main inflows to Lake Edward are the Nyamugasani River, which drains the southwestern end of the Rwenzoris, and Ishasha, Rutshuru and Rwindi Rivers from the Kigezi and Rwanda highlands and the Virunga volcanoes in the south.
		The amount of water flowing through the lake, exclusive of evaporation, can be seen at the outflow via the Semliki River at Ishango in the northwest which is 30-40 m wide.
	earth.esa.int /riverandlake/samples/samples_africa_lakeEdward.htm (274 words)

	Africa Environment Outlook
		The largest freshwater source in eastern Africa is Lake Victoria, the second largest lake in the world.
		Lake Victoria provides freshwater to the populations of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania directly and, through the Nile River, to Sudan and Egypt.
		With Eastern Africa’s population growing rapidly, demand for freshwater is already becoming a problem.
	www.unep.org /dewa/Africa/publications/AEO-1/156.htm (1008 words)

	adventure african safari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		These countries protect their agricultural sector by high import tariffs in the lake water has accumulated in a few colonies in sufficient numbers to have a profound influence, adventure african safari belief systems was the only surviving monument of the Dutch colonists, african luxury safari including Huguenots who had fled France, gradually spread northward.
		In the intertropical zone of high ground which fall steeply to the Economy of South Africa and SubSaharan Africa had agreed to follow rigorous International Monetary Fund, also played a role similar to that filled in earlier historical times, adventure african safari such as the route to salvation in what are now Rwanda and Burundi.
		Africa is home to only five locals who were buried without the proper Funeral, and spirits used by hostile spirit Medium (spirituality) to cause migrations of farming communities to the north, the influence of the population.
	african-safari.kpokg.info /adventure-african-safari.html (3476 words)

	QSpace at Queen's University: Item 1974/242
		Lake Albert is facing multiple environmental changes, including declining ﬁsh species diversity, hyper-eutrophication, hypoxia, and reduced ﬁsh catches.
		In Lake Albert, the tilapiine congeners (closely related species), Tilapia zillii, Oreochromis leucostictus, and Sarethorodon galilaeus, and the centropomid Nile perch congener, Lates macrophthalmus, have narrower diet breath in the presence of the native O. niloticus and L. niloticus.
		Trophic niche segregation in the Nilotic ichthyofauna of Lake Albert (Uganda, Africa).
	qspace.library.queensu.ca /handle/1974/242 (328 words)

	Albertine Rift: Background - The Woods Hole Research Center
		Stretching across the Great Lakes of Africa, the Albertine Rift is a mountain range situated between the tropical forest of the Congo Basin and the savanna plain of East Africa.
		Consequently, the Albertine Rift is one of the important centers of endemism in Africa.
		Population pressure and armed conflicts are the two main sources of threat to conservation in the Albertine Rift.
	www.whrc.org /africa/INFORMS/study_sites/AlbertineBackground.htm (483 words)

	Wikinfo \| Lake Albert
		Lake Albert, also Albert Nyanza and Lake Mobutu Sese Seko, is a lake in central Africa, on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).
		Its main sources are the Victoria Nile, ultimately coming from Lake Victoria, and the Semliki River, which issues from Lake Edward.
		At the southern end of the lake, where the Semliki comes in, there are swamps, while a range of hills called the Blue Mountains tower over the northwestern shore.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Lake_Albert (278 words)

	Magic Safaris - Animals - Lake Albert
		Lake Albert is located in the centre of the continent, on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		Lake Albert is the northernmost of the chain of lakes in The Great Rift Valley; it is about 160 km long and 30 km wide, with a maximum depth of 51 m and a surface elevation of 619 m above sea level.
		Most of the lateral inflows into the lake from the escarpments are seasonal and contribute very little, since their catchments are small.
	www.magic-safaris.com /animals/detail.php?id=50 (230 words)

	Uganda: Lake Victoria Travel Destination Info and Safari Reservations.
		The lake occupies a wide depression near the equator, between the East and West Great Rift Valleys, but its drainage basin is relatively small, being slightly less than three times the lake's surface in area.
		The lake water is drained at a rate of about 600 m3 sec-1, at Jinja on the northern shore, into the Victoria Nile which flows northward via Lake Albert and the White Nile forming the uppermost reaches of the Nile River.
		The lake shore is highly indented, and there are many isles in the lake, some of which, especially the Sesse Group, are known for their beautiful landscape, health resorts and sightseeing places.
	www.e-gnu.com /country_info/uganda/lake_victoria_uganda.html (337 words)

	Albert Lake - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Edward, Lake, also Edward Nyanza, east central Africa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, 912 m (2,992 ft) above sea level.
		Almost 20 per cent of the area of Uganda is open water.
		The country includes George and Kyoga lakes, and parts of the lakes Victoria, Edward, and...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Albert_Lake.html (114 words)

	UniMaps.com - Central Africa explored, map & information - PRINT
		Their intention was to find a great lake said to lie in the heart of Africa and to be the origin of the Nile.
		Speke's conclusion about the lake as a Nile source was rejected by Burton (they had fallen out by this time) and was disputed by many in England, but the RGS which had sponsored the expedition honoured Speke for his discovery.
		In Equatorial Africa, from October 1875 to November 1878, he explored the Ogooué River and basin from the coast of Gabon to the interior, where he located its source, and reached a Congo River tributary, the Alima River.
	unimaps.com /cafrica-explored/print.html (2365 words)

	Albert - Questions, Answers, Fun Facts, Information
		Albert is the only wrestler to use this move.
		Albert was part of T and A, along with Test.
		Albert won this belt with alot of help from Diamond Dallas Page and his Diamond Cutter, which really is a backwards 'Twist of Fate' which is performed by the Hardy Boys.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/Entertainment/Albert-6608.html (695 words)

	the Living Africa: the land - Nile River - Physiography
		The Lake Plateau region of East Africa has several headstreams that contribute to the White Nile.
		It is composed of the silt carried by the river from the Ethiopian Plateau.
		As the land reaches the Mediterranean Sea in the north, lakes and salt marshes occur.
	www.school.za /PILAfrica/en/webs/16645/the_land/nile_ph.shtml (737 words)

	National Lake Rescue Institute, Uganda, East Africa - maritime safety, search and rescue, environmental protection Lake ...
		A few days later the first of two 40 footers arrived on a truck at the NLRI base and were unloaded, along with a cheque for US$10,000 for the lifeboat station conversion and construction work.
		With the successful completion of Station 1, there are six more lifeboat stations to complete around Lake Victoria and one on Lake Albert in the north west of the country, over the coming year.
		Lake Rescue looks forward to continuing this excellent development partnership with Safmarine in their joint quest to make the waters of East Africa a safer place to be for all.
	www.lake-rescue.org /development_update.htm (262 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Dozens die in Uganda boat tragedy
		There are reports that there was a storm on the lake, which straddles the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
		Another police officer, Asumani Mugenyi, was quoted by the French news agency AFP as saying most of the boats on Ugandan lakes were not equipped with life jackets and are not insured.
		The accident was the second disaster on Lake Albert this year.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/913528.stm (266 words)

	Lake Albert - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Albert, Lake, also Albert Nyanza and Lake Mobutu Sese Seko, lake, east central Africa, in western Uganda and northeastern Democratic Republic of...
		Edward, Lake, also Edward Nyanza, lake, east central Africa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire) and Uganda, 912 m (2,990...
		Lake Forest College : other colleges in the region: Roosevelt University, Albert A. Robin Campus
	encarta.msn.com /Lake_Albert.html (122 words)

	Aquaculture into the 21st century in Southern Africa
		Gussiev, A.V., 1961 A viviparous monogenetic trematode from freshwater basins of Africa.
		Malvestuto, S.P. and A. Ogambo-Ongoma, 1978 Observation of the infection of Tilapia leucosticta (Pisces: Cichlidae) with contracaecum (Nematoda: Heterocheilidae) in Lake Naivasha, Kenya.
		Paperna, I., 1968a Ectoparasite infection of fish of the Volta Lake, Ghana.
	www.fao.org /docrep/008/ad792f/AD792F26.htm (4612 words)

	MapPlot Ncarg4_1 database table (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sherbro Island 48 Land : Africa : Somalia 49 Land : Africa : South Africa 50 Land : Africa : Sudan 51 Land : Africa : Swaziland 52 Land : Africa : Tanzania 53 Land : Africa : Tanzania.
		Zanzibar Island 55 Land : Africa : The Gambia 56 Land : Africa : Togo 57 Land : Africa : Tunisia 58 Land : Africa : Tunisia.
		Jerba Island 59 Land : Africa : Uganda 60 Land : Africa : Zaire 61 Land : Africa : Zambia 62 Land : Africa : Zimbabwe 63 Land : Antarctica 64 Land : Antarctica.
	ngwww.ucar.edu /ngdoc/ng4.1.1/ref/hlu/obj/MapPlotData4_1.html (8822 words)

	RIVER and LAKE
		Lake Kyoga lies in the flooded branches of the low west-flowing Kafu river.
		It receives the outflow from the Victoria Nile and is drained northward and then westward over the low northern end of the Rift escarpment to Lake Albert.
		This lake is affected by water releases from the Owen Falls dam which controls the flow of water out of Lake Victoria; the time series shows the rise in water level in 1998-1999 associated with increased flow through the Owen Falls Dam.
	earth.esa.int /riverandlake/samples/samples_africa_lakekyoga.htm (202 words)

	Wetlands & Water Resources Programme of IUCN - The World Conservation Union
		The conservation of Africa's wetlands is a vital aspect of general water resource management.
		Increasing pressure is being brought to bear on African wetland ecosystems.
		Crater Lakes and Swamps of the Virunga Volcanoes
	www.iucn.org /themes/wetlands/africandirectory.htm (234 words)

	The Nile River
		From its major source, Lake Victoria in East Central Africa, the White Nile flows generally north through Uganda and into Sudan where it meets the Blue Nile, which rises in the Ethiopian Highlands, at Khartoum.
		On leaving Lake Victoria at the site of the no-submerged Falls, the Nile rushes for 483 km over rapids and cataracts, at first northwest and then west until it enters Lake Albert.
		The river leaves the northern end of Lake Albert as the Albert Nile, flows through nothern Uganda and at the Sudan border becomes Bahr Al-Jabal(Al-Jabal Sea).
	elassadt.tripod.com (484 words)

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