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	AllRefer.com - Nyasa, Lake, Africa (African Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Lake Nyasa, the third largest lake in Africa, is bordered by Tanzania in the north and northeast, by Mozambique in the east, and by Malawi in the south and west.
		The lake is bounded by steep mountains, except in the south.
		Its main tributary is the Ruhuhu River in the northeast; the Shire (in the south), a tributary of the Zambezi, is the lake's sole outlet.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/Nyasa-La.html (240 words)

	Lake Malawi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lake Malawi, originally known as Lake Nyasa, Lake Nyassa and Lake Niassa after the Yao word for "lake" (officially, still called Niassa in Mozambique), is the most southerly lake in the Great African Rift Valley system.
		The lake is about 560 km long and 75 km wide at its widest point, with a total area of approximately 29,600 sq km, and is bordered by Mozambique, Malawi, and Tanzania.
		Although Portugal colonised the eastern shores of the lake, the islands of Likoma and Chizumulu which lie just off the shore were colonised by Scottish missionaries from Nyasaland, and as a result were incorporated as part of Nyasaland rather than Mozambique.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Nyasa (752 words)

	BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA - LoveToKnow Article on BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA
		Lake Mweru and Lake Bangweulu are respectively 3000 and 3760 ft. above sea-level; Lake Chilwa is 1946 ft. in altitude.
		Finally may be mentioed the tract of elevated country between Lake Bangweulu and the river Luapula, and between Lake Baugweulu and the basin of the Luangwa; and also the Lukinga (Mushinga) or Ugwara Mountains of North Western Rhodesia, which attain perhaps to altitudes of 6ooo ft.
		The nearest approach to a desert is the rather dry land to the east a~nd north-east of Lake Mweru.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BRITISH_CENTRAL_AFRICA.htm (3083 words)

	Lake Malawi -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		About three quarters of the lake is in Malawi; the rest is in (A republic on the eastern coast of Africa on the Mozambique Channel; became independent from Portugal in 1975) Mozambique.
		Large-scale transport between settlements along the shores of the lake and between the Malawi shore and Likoma and Chizumulu islands is provided by (A ship powered by one or more steam engines) steamers.
		Other wildlife resident in the lake includes abundant (Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters) crocodiles, and a large population of fish eagles which feed off the fish population.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/lake_malawi.htm (612 words)

	CHILWA - LoveToKnow Article on CHILWA
		(incorrectly SHIRWA), a shallow lake in south-east Africa, S.S.E. of Lake Nyasa, cut by 35 20 E., and lying between 15 and 15 35 S. The lake is undergoing a process of desiccation, and in some dry seasons (as in 1879 and 1903) the open water is reduced to a number of large pools.
		Formerly the lake seems to have found an outlet northwards to the Lujenda branch of the Rovuma, but with the sinking of its level it is now separated from the Lujenda by a wooded ridge some 30 to 40 ft. above the surrounding plains.
		The lake was discovered by David Livingstone in 1859 and was by him called Shirwa, from a mishearing of the native name.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CH/CHILWA.htm (146 words)

	Lake Nyasa, the third largest lake in Africa, Kyela
		Matema, in the northern part of the lake is considered to be the best beach for people who like to relax on the beach or swim along the lake shore.
		Though Lake Nyasa does not receive many tourists, the lake is magnificently attractive and is rich in crocodiles and hippopotamus.
		For Fish lovers, Lake Nyasa is biologically the most diverse lake, containing approximately 30% of world's cichlid species (colorful fish which are easily seen in the lake's clear water).
	www.utalii.com /Off_the_normal_path/Lake_Nyasa_Tanzania.htm (346 words)

	SAFARI PROFILE
		Lake Victoria, Africa's largest and the world's second largest freshwater lake, is scenically beatiful and has great numbers of fish, the most commercially viable variety being the tilapia.
		Lake Tanganyika is the longest fresh water lake in the world (677km), and the second deepest (1433m), with over 250 species of fish.
		Lake Nyasa (also known as lake Malawi) is the most southerly of the Rift Valley lakes and is also, biologically, the most diverse.
	www.safariweb.com /tanzania/safaris.htm (2032 words)

	BioMed Central \| Full text \| Out of Tanganyika: Genesis, explosive speciation, key-innovations and phylogeography of ...
		We conclude that Lake Tanganyika is the geographic and genetic cradle of all haplochromine lineages.
		The flow of the Rusizi, presently from Lake Kivu into LT with the Panzi falls as strong barrier for fish migration, might actually have been reversed before the uplift of the Virunga volcanoes north of Lake Kivu as suggested by deposits of fossil LT mollusks and fluviatile sands in the upper Rusizi valley [41,42].
		Stiassny MLJ, Meyer A: Cichlids of the Rift Lakes.
	www.biomedcentral.com /1471-2148/5/17 (6592 words)

	Bibliography of Lake Malawi Biology (with emphasis on fish systematics, ecology, & evolution)
		Eldblom and and Kristensen on a revision of the gastropod genus Melanoides in Lake Malawi
		Vollmer, Weiss, and Bootsma on the ventilation of Lake Malawi
		Higgins, Hecky, and Taylor on epilithic nitrogen fixation in Lake Malawi
	malawicichlids.com /mw14001.htm (6164 words)

	Nyasa, Lake -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The lake is fed by the Shire River 12 miles (19 km) below its efflux from Lake Nyasa and drains through that river's exit from Lake Malombe's southern shore.
		Nyasa, which means “lake,” is 363 miles (584 kilometers) long, north to south, with varying widths of 10 to 50 miles (16 to 80 kilometers).
		The vicinity of Lake Nyasa was inhabited in the period between 8000 and 2000 BC.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9056566?tocId=9056566 (995 words)

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		Taylor says Lake Malawi is a Òworld treasureÓ in terms of biodiversity since it is estimated that up to 1,000 species of fish live there (and most of these live nowhere else).
		A second major objective is to train graduate students from the countries around the lake to continue this research on their own, in future, to develop programs that will protect the fish populations and to staff laboratories in the three countries.
		She has determined also that although the water is clear, the lake is very deep and weakly stratified in the top 250 metres and that light is a significant factor affecting the growth of algae.
	communications.uwaterloo.ca /Gazette/1998/apr08/malawi.doc (1204 words)

	Lake Rukwa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lake Rukwa is a lake in southwestern Tanzania.
		The alkaline Lake Rukwa lies midway between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyasa at an elevation of about 800 metres, in a parallel branch of the rift system.
		Lake Rukwa is 2,600 square kilometres in size.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Rukwa (77 words)

	Martin Vollmer - Research
		We have conducted studies on some of the world's deepest lakes to contribute to a better understanding of the timescales of mixing and transport in these lakes.
		This lake is the fifth deepest lake in the world (about 650 m) and it is brakish due to a lack of outlet.
		We have also determined the major ion composition for this lake and we have collected CTD profiles and samples for the analysis of dissolved oxygen, nutrients, noble gases and the tracer tritium.
	www.mpch-mainz.mpg.de /~vollmer/Research/Limnology/limnology.html (250 words)

	World InfoZone - Malawi Facts
		Lake Malawi is the third largest lake in Africa.
		Lake Malawi is often called the "Lake of Stars" because of the glittering produced by reflected light.
		Lake Malawi is world famous for cichlids - a species of freshwater fish.
	www.worldinfozone.com /facts.php?country=Malawi (384 words)

	Search Results for nyasa - Encyclopædia Britannica
		lake fed and drained by the Shire River in southern Malawi.
		Although not all the shores of Lake Victoria are well settled, the lands marginal to the lake are among the most densely populated in Africa.
		Lake, southern Africa, bounded on the west and south by Malawi, on...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=nyasa&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (371 words)

	Conservation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Given this scenario it is not surprising that the JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology and Rhodes University are rising to meet the challenges with a variety of "freshwater projects" in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa.
		The project on this lake was multifaceted in that threats to freshwater biodiversity comes from a) changes to the quality of the water which affect the ecosystem processes and can induce massive fish kills, and b) overfishing can also drive small populations of endemic fishes to extinction.
		Not surprisingly, the quality of water in the lake is changing and the project had to make some strong recommendations regarding landuse practices and river management to slow the deterioration.
	cdserver2.ru.ac.za /cd/011120_1/Aqua/Ichthyology/Ichthyology/conservation.htm (1832 words)

	Malawi, Lake
		Fishing village on Lake Malawi (or Lake Nyasa).
		Lake, bordered by Malawi, Tanzania, and Mozambique, formed in a southern section of the Great Rift Valley.
		The lake is rich in a great variety of fish and this has helped its neighbouring areas, especially in Malawi, to become densely populated.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0053580.html (209 words)

	Jungle Photos Africa Satellite Images - Lake Malawi
		It is tenth largest lake in the world and home to one of the world's richest freshwater faunas.
		This image of Lake Malawi taken from the International Space Station is again north to south, as above, but is foreshortened due to the relatively low orbital height of the ISS.
		In this image of central Lake Malawi, the Nyika Plateau is shown in sharp relief at the top right of the picture (north is to the right).
	www.junglephotos.com /africa/afspace/lakes/lakemalawi.shtml (225 words)

	Lake Rukwa, the fourth largest in Tanzania
		The Lake Rukwa was first visited by British explorer John Hanning Speke and followed by the noted Scottish geologist and explorer Joseph Thomson, who sow it from a distance in 1880.
		It is the forth largest lake in Tanzania located on the south-western regions of Rukwa and Mbeya.
		The shallow alkaline lake is cyclical in nature in terms of size which caused by the varying inflow of streams, for example, in some years in the past the lake shrank to a length of about 50 kilometers, years later it expanded to 135 kilometres long.
	www.utalii.com /Rukwa/Lake_Rukwa.htm (205 words)

	Cichlids
		Lake Malawi (or Lake Nyasa as some people call it) has been isolated from other bodies of water for about 2 million years.
		All the cichlids that are endemic to Lake Malawi are mouth brooders.
		This means that the females keep their fertilised eggs in their mouths until the eggs hatch, for better protection in the crowded lake.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/Cichlids.htm (246 words)

	World Tours and Safaris Tanzania
		Mwanza,Musoma,And Bukoba are the three major ports on the Lake in Tanzania Side, apart from Kisumu in Kenya, and Jinja in Uganda.
		This is the longest freshwater Lake in the world with (677 km)and the second deepest Lake in the World with approximately 1,433 meters deep with 250 different species of Fish.
		The Lake itself is the most southerly of the rift valley lakes and it is also, biologically the most diverse.
	www.world-tours-safaris.com /lakes.htm (137 words)

	Malawi3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Spatial heterogeneities in Lake Malawi/Nyasa/Niassa result, among other things, from wind-driven flow, river inflow, radiation and heat balances over the 560 km long lake, residual currents in the horizontal plane and return flows at deeper levels controlled by thermal stratification.
		The large-scale hydrodynamics and the associated mass transport in deep Lake Malawi/Nyasa/Niassa are clearly 3-dimensional phenomena.
		In such a model, longitudinal exchanges caused by horizontal circulations of typical lake width dimension have to be incorporated in the dispersion coefficients.
	www.crle.uoguelph.ca /malawi/ModelHydro.htm (1051 words)

	Jungle Photos Africa Satellite Images - Africa Lake Malawi more information
		This is the fourth deepest lake in the world, reaching 2,280 feet in depth, much deeper than any lake in North America or Europe.
		However, what sets Lake Malawi apart is the biodiversity of cichlid fishes, with about 2,000 described species, most of them unique to the lake, more than any other similarly-sized freshwater body.
		Lake Malawi, once known as Lake Nyasa, was first discovered by Europeans in 1859.
	www.junglephotos.com /africa/afspace/lakes/lakemalawimore.shtml (176 words)

	LAKE NYASA (LAKE MALAWI)
		In contrast with Lake Tanganyika, it consists of a single basin with greatest depth of about 706 m near the western shore about 45 km north of Nkhata Bay.
		he lake occupies part of the southern end of the Rift Valley system and is to a large extent delimited by faults, particularly to the north and on the eastern coast.
		In further contrast to Lake Tanganyika, where a depth of 200 m is found within 20 km of the southern extremity of the lake, in Lake Nyasa such a depth is not encountered within 110 km of the southern end (8, 1).
	www.ilec.or.jp /database/afr/afr-13.html (544 words)

	First major project in Africa is completed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lake Malawi has exceptional water quality but increasing nutrient loadings threaten to create rapid eutrophication, as occurred in Lake Victoria.
		Ongoing efforts related to Lake Victoria include helping the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization organize an international conference on the state of the Lake ecosystem.
		"Lake Victoria 2000: A New Beginning", was held in Uganda in June 2000.
	www.inweh.unu.edu /unuinweh/newsletters/newsletteroct00/malawimodel.htm (463 words)

	Tanzania: National Parks & Game Reserves
		The lake is the longest fresh water lake in the world (677km), and the second deepest (1433m), with over 250 species of fish.
		Located at Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, where Stanley is reputed to have met Livingstone and given the famous greeting "Dr. Livingstone, I presume".
		This vast protected area stretches from Lake Natron (the breeding ground for East Africa's flamingos) in the northeast, to Lake Enyasi in the south, and Lake Manyara to the east.
	www.ivorynet.com /tanzania-parks.htm (2259 words)

	Cichlid Fishes of the African Great Lakes - National Zoo\| FONZ
		However, from a fish’s viewpoint, the lake is a mosaic of habitats with alternating rocky, sandy, and weedy environments along the shore that isolate fish populations from one another.
		In Lake Victoria, increased turbidity of the water is interfering with mate choice, blocking the mechanism of reproductive isolation, as well as destroying the machinery for maintaining and creating species.
		The fauna of all three lakes is now in extreme peril, due to over-fishing, species introductions, as well as chemical pollution from agricultural pesticides, oil exploration, and the establishment of industries along the shore.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /Publications/ZooGoer/1998/3/depthscichlidfishes.cfm (3026 words)

	Rukwa, Lake -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Crocodile and hippopotamus inhabit the lake, and fish abound.
		The vegetation setting of the lakes varies from the semidesert, in which Lake Rudolf is situated, to the patches of closed evergreen forest on the western and northern shores of Lake Victoria.
		The lake is irregularly shaped, with Saginaw Bay indenting the coast of Michigan.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9377298?tocId=9377298 (983 words)

	Jungle Photos Africa Scenery lakes - Lake Malawi photo
		Lake Malawi's water is so clear that divers can see 40 or 50 feet.
		The absence of plankton also renders the lake's water very blue (due to its absorption of light of other wavelengths).
		This picture was taken from the stern of the lake steamer MV Ilala 2, the best way for a traveler to experience the lake.
	www.junglephotos.com /africa/afscenery/lakes/ilalastern.shtml (90 words)

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