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	Uganda - LoveToKnow 1911
		On the east the limit of the Uganda Protectorate in 1901 was the thalweg of Lake Rudolf and a line drawn from the south-eastern coast of that lake south along the edge of the Laikipia and Kikuyu escarpments to the frontier of German East Africa.
		Thence it crosses that lake in a straight line and afterwards the Ruwenzori to its highest point, Margherita peak, whence it follows the Lamia River to its junction with the Semliki.
		Like the districts round Lake Rudolf, the average altitude (near the Nile) is not more than 2000 ft., but the rainfall is more abundant than in the terrible Rudolf region, being an average of 30 in.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Uganda (7514 words)

	Turkana, Lake (formerly Lake Rudolf (to 1979)) Online Encyclopedia Article About Turkana, Lake (formerly Lake Rudolf ...
		Lake in NW Kenya and Ethiopia, E Africa, 400 km/250 mi N of Nairobi; N extremity extends into Ethiopia; length 290 km/180 mi; width 56 km/35 mi; depth c.70 m/230 ft; the lake is surrounded by extensive Plio-Pleistocene deposits covering the last 3–4 million years.
		Major localities on the E side of the lake include Ileret and Koobi Fora, with fossils of Australopithecus boisei, Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, and Homo erectus.
		On the W side there have been major discoveries at Lomekwi - the 2·6 million-year-old cranium of Australopithecus aethiopicus (an early robust australopithecine) - and at Nariokotome, with the virtually complete skeleton of a Homo erectus youth dated to 1·6 mya.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/entries/004/Turkana-Lake.html (199 words)

	Report to the government of kenya on fisheries development possibilities
		On Lake Rudolf, for an initial investment of £300,000, on the improvement of the road from Kitale (rail head and beginning of tarmac communications) and approximately £25,000 on other facilities, annual catches may be increased by as much as 15,000 tons.
		The Lake, however, is divided between three districts, Turkana, Samburu, and Marsabit, and it is the declared intention of the Kenya Government to develop it as rapidly as possible as a national asset.
		On Lake Rudolf, which is the last of the major East African lakes yet to be developed, no overall fisheries survey has been carried out since the Cambridge Expedition to the East African Lakes in 1930–31; this expedition, moreover, visited the Lake for only a few weeks.
	www.fao.org /docrep/005/41449E/41449E07.htm (8427 words)

	Lake Turkana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lake Turkana, formerly known as Lake Rudolf, is a lake in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, with its far northern end of the lake crossing into Ethiopia.
		Lake Turkana, sometimes referred to as the Jade Sea, contains Nile perch, a handful of obscure and pelagic cichlids of the genus Haplochromis and tilapia, and formerly contained Africa's largest population of Nile crocodiles: 14,000 breed on Central Island.
		The lake is featured in Fernando Meirelles's film The Constant Gardener, which is based on the book of the same name by John le Carré, although some of the footage was actually filmed at Lake Magadi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Turkana (697 words)

	Lake Turkana - The Jade Sea
		There is a lake of insuperable beauty, an inland sea surrounded by volcanic boulders and purple hills blanketed by brilliant sunshine and star-bright nights.
		Lake Turkana is perhaps the largest desert lake in the world, measuring about 7000sq kms and fed by three rivers: the Omo of Ethiopia, the Turkwel and the Kerio.
		The crater lakes are also connected through sub-terrain ducts with the main lake, and are renowned for the differing shades of jade, green and blue at various times of the day.
	www.ivorynet.com /laketurkana.htm (1807 words)

	Turkana Lake: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Lake Rudolf, which is also known as Lake Turkana, lies in the eastern arm of the great Rift...
		It reached the lake in 1901 and was subsequently...woman, date unknown; Right: Turkana people dancing, photographed...tribes such as the Maasai and Turkana found themselves marginalised...from a train on the Mombasa to Lake Victoria line.
		In the northwest, straddling Lake Turkana and the Kulal Mts., are high-lying...caravan trading between Mombasa and Lake Victoria.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/turkana-lake.jsp?l=T&p=5 (1472 words)

	Destination Kenya - What's On.
		He named it Lake Rudolf in honor of his patron the Austrian Archduke.The name was, however, changed to Lake Turkana in 1975 by the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.
		In Lake Turkana giant Nile perch grow to over 200 Ibs and may reach 400 Ibs, much to the delight of the sportsfishermen but commercial fishermen look for the more palatable Nile Tilapia which are dried or frozen and marketed in Nairobi and other towns in the country.
		The lake’s central island, an active volcano, right at the centre of the lake, which sometimes belches out clouds of sulphurous steam and smoke, was established as a National park in 1983 for the protection of the breeding ground for the Niles crocodile.
	www.nationaudio.com /whatson/Destination/Valley.html (1177 words)

	Rudolf,Lake - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Turkana, Lake, formerly Lake Rudolf, lake in central Africa, mostly in northwestern Kenya, with the northernmost tip in southwestern Ethiopia....
		Nureyev, Rudolf Hametovich (1938-1993), Russian-born ballet dancer and choreographer, perhaps the most virtuosic and charismatic male dancer of his...
		Rudolf (of Germany) (?-1080), duke of Swabia and king of Germany (1077-1080).
	encarta.msn.com /Rudolf,Lake.html (99 words)

	British East Africa
		It is occupied by a chain of shallow lakes that are separated by inactive or extinct volcanoes.
		The Turkana live near Lake Rudolf; they have headdresses made from their own hair and that of their ancestors and cuts in parts of their bodies to show the number of enemies killed.
		Lake Rudolf (N. Kenya) and the Olduvai Gorge of the Rift Valley (over the border, into Tanzania) are the sites of the main finds of the Leakey family.
	www.heliograph.com /trmgs/trmgs2/bea.shtml (5792 words)

	LakeChad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Lake Chad a large freshwater lake lies on the edge of the world's largest, driest desert-- the Sahara.
		Lake Turkana, formerly Lake Rudolf, lies in the Rift Valley of East Africa.
		Prolonged drought and the damming of three rivers for irrigation near the southern reaches of the lake contributed to the lake's decline.
	www.geog.umn.edu /courses/1403/BioMgnt.htm (243 words)

	Sobaka :: God Willin' and the River Don't Rise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Names linked to the great explorers of the Continent are still to be found: Lake Tana in the Ethiopian Highlands, Lake Rudolf in Kenya, and the biggest, Lake Victoria, which is cut by the Kenya/Tanzania border.
		Lake Albert lies between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).
		Lake Kivu separates Rwanda from Congo, while the mighty Tanganyika separates Burundi and Tanzania from Congo as well, plus a bit of Zambia.
	www.diacritica.com /sobaka/2003/lakes.html (1123 words)

	UNEP-WCMC Protected Areas Programme - Lake Turkana National Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Brief description: Lake Turkana is the largest, most northerly and most saline of Africa's Rift Valley lakes and an outstanding laboratory for the study of plant and animal communities.
		The northeastern shore of the lake is mostly rocky or sandy.
		The water level of the lake has been dropping steadily for some years: a decline of 10m was recorded between 1975 and 1993, primarily due to reduced inflow from the Omo River in Ethiopia due to irrigation and drought upstream.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/wh/sibiloi.html (2117 words)

	The Dating Game
		In seeking to unravel the geology of the area, she discovered a layer of volcanic ash or tuff that turned out to be crucial in the dating of the fossils and the artifacts found in association with it.
		Lake Rudolf was much larger at that time.
		Around 1976, the name of the large lake on which Richard Leakey has his base of operations was changed by the Kenyan government from Lake Rudolf to Lake Turkana.
	www.answersingenesis.org /docs2006/0816dating-game.asp (7656 words)

	Richard Leakey's East Rudolf: Desolate Graveyard of Early Man
		From the semi-permanent grass-roofed huts clustered on the point to catch lake breezes, Richard Leakey and a team of scientists that sometimes swells to two dozen range out over a thousand square miles of hot, hilly thorn-bush country to collect the fossilized bones of various ancestors and cousins of the human species.
		Unless East Rudolf has preserved an extraordinary selection of aberrant types, Leakey has evidence that there were not just one or two hominid lineages in existence at a given time but three or four and perhaps more.
		East Rudolf must have been a region with sufficient ecological diversity to have allowed various types of closely related hominids to have arisen and thrive for hundreds of thousands of years.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF001973/Rensberger/Rensberger10/Rensberger10.html (1536 words)

	About Sibiloi National Park
		Previously Lake Rudolf after an Austrian prince, the lake was renamed Lake Turkana in 1975 post-independence after the Turkana people who inhabit its western shores.
		The lake is 265 kilometers long, has an average breadth of 30 kilometers and is not particularly deep, with a maximum depth of just less than 140 meters.
		One of the three crater lakes is home to an endemic subspecies of cichlid (tilapia) fish.
	www.sibiloi.com /about_sibiloi.htm (761 words)

	Tim and Lara Beth's Kenya Page - Lake Turkana
		Lake Turkana, the subject of John Hillaby's Journey to the Jade Sea, is the destination of choice in northern Kenya as well as the largest permanent desert lake in the world.
		These two Austrians named the lake Rudolf (after the Crown Prince of Austria), which stuck until the name was changed to Turkana in an effort at Kenyanization.
		Ferguson's Gulf Fishing Lodge (also called the Lake Turkana Fishing Lodge) is located on the west side of the lake and offers the highest concentration of birds on that side.
	www.blissites.com /kenya/places/turkana.html (290 words)

	Introduction to Koobi Fora Exploration
		Spectacular, not only because of the stunning beauty of the lake iselft and its pwerfully stark surroundings, but also for its treasure-trove of prehuman fossils, buried in the layered deposits on the eastern shore of the lake.
		The long shallow waters of the lake, which stretch 155 miles north to south and up to 35 miles east to west, sparkle green in the tropical sun; someone called it the Jade Sea, a very apt name.
		Pouring its silt-laden waters into the north end of the lake is the Omo River, a huge river that drains the Ethiopian highlands to the north and meanders tortulously as it nears its end at the border with Kenya where it reaches the Jade Sea.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/origins/koobi/koobi1.html (883 words)

	QUEST FOR THE JADE SEA
		The exploration of the Lake Rudolf (Turkana) area receives little attention in studies of colonialism.
		The wars between Ethiopia and Italy, Britain and the Mahdi State, and the competition between Britain, France and Belgium over Equatorial Sudan are usually cited as the determining factors of the colonial scramble of the region.
		Nevertheless, at the end of the nineteenth century Lake Rudolf was the subject of many expeditions which "reflected misguided colonial judgments about its economic and strategic importance and its presumed relationship to the Nile" (p.
	web.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v3/v3i3a13.htm (774 words)

	Report to the government of kenya on fisheries development possibilities
		If unrecorded imports of dried and fresh lake fish from Uganda and Tanzania, estimated at being not less than 3,000 tons a year in fresh fish equivalent (of a value of approximately £150,000) are added, actual imports into Kenya are currently at a rate of 7,000 tons per year, worth approximately £380,000.
		The people in Acholi, whose per capita fish consumption is among the highest of any group in East Africa, are acquainted with the Lake Rudolf species, since they are the same as the species caught in Lake Albert from which they have traditionally drawn much of their supplies.
		Sales from Lake Rudolf to Uganda have already started, and probably more than 50 per cent of the dried fish sold from Ferguson's Gulf is now moving to Moroto, Kampala and Entebbe.
	www.fao.org /docrep/005/41449E/41449E05.htm (1005 words)

	GORP - Lake Turkana and Sibiloi National Park
		There is no road connection between the east and western shores of the lake as the southern end is a tumult left by previous volcanic activity.
		The western side of the lake is inhabited by the Turkana people, strong, silent, resigned and bellicose, much like the land they live in.
		Although thousands of years ago Lake Turkana fed the White Nile it now has no outlet and the shoreline of this inland sea is slowly receding in the face-of the harsh sun and ever less water reaching the lake from the seasonal floods of the Omo and Turkwell rivers.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/location/africa/kenya/ke_turka.htm (808 words)

	KFRP Koobi Fora Research Project Lake Turkana Basin
		The Lake Turkana (formerly Lake Rudolf) Basin is situated in north western Kenya and southern Ethiopia.
		In 1968, the Kenyan contingent withdrew to prospect the Kenyan exposures on the northeastern shores of Lake Turkana.
		These research efforts have focused on both the eastern and western shores of Lake Turkana, and have provided an exceptional depth of understanding of the past geological and palaeoenvironmental history of the area.
	www.kfrp.com /kfrp_history.htm (472 words)

	Kenya - History (Grades 6-8)
		Here, apparently, was the cradle of man-the-toolmaker; deliberately shaped flints found beside the lake have been dated as 2.5 millions years old.
		In 1972 a dramatic new discovery was made on the eastern shore of the lake: the skull and leg bones of one of the creatures who made the tools, and probably man's earliest known ancestor.
		The remains found at Lake Rudolf indicate that "1470 Man" could stand and walk upright, and is believed to be the direct ancestor of modern man.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_Geography_77_1.html (343 words)

	The North Kenya/Ethiopia Expedition includes Meru National Park -
		Lake Turkana formerly Lake Rudolf, sometimes referred to as the Jade Sea, lies in the far north of Kenya and is the largest lake in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya stretching 3500 miles from the Red Sea to the coast of Mozambique.
		North of the equator the lake is bordered by Sudan and Ethiopia in the north and the primeval sentinels of Count Teliki's volcano and the Nabiyatum Cone.
		The Turkana tribe who populate most of the lake shore are some of the toughest most resilient humans on the planet.
	www.bushcamps.com /tours/details-1-modulesId-2-6 (784 words)

	Dead Sea - Tectonics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		From the Turkana or Rudolf, in the northern frontier, to the Natron, in Tanzania, the Kenyan Rift comprises a string of small lakes: Baringo, Bogoria, Nakuru, Elmentaita, Naivasha and Magadi.
		Though the area was generally dry prior to the Pleistocene, intermittent lakes and inland seas along the transform have fluctuated with global climate change and glaciation, as shown by bore-hole drillings taken from the Dead Sea basin which show alternating layers of salt deposits and marls.
		Because the Dead Sea is an endoreic lake, the water evaporates in the desert heat, causing deposition of evaporites and clastic sediments.
	geology.wcedu.pima.edu /~vzinn/tectonics.htm (2326 words)

	East Africa Living Encyclopedia
		West of the lake the lands are quite arid, with an annual rainfall that averages under ten inches and that falls some years to an almost negligible level.
		East of Lake Rudolf lies the Chalbi Desert; still farther east are equally arid lands that ordinarily support only semi-desert vegetation.
		Streams and rivers radiate from this region eastward toward the Indian Ocean, westward to Lake Victoria, and run northward to Lake Rudolf or disappear the arid terrain of northern Kenya.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /NEH/kgeography.htm (1427 words)

	LAKE TURKANA: OUTER LIMITS
		As usual, there is a lot of truth in the legend- and most of the tribes that live around the lake have had to develop a strong survival instinct to prosper on these shores- and the cultures here are some of the most pure and isolated on earth.
		While it is possible to fly to the Lake in a Chartered aircraft (and indeed flying is recommended for the furthest Northern reaches) it must be said that flying to Turkana somewhat distills the adventure.
		One of these small lakes is home to an ancient species of Tilapia- a small freshwater fish- whose existence suggests that the Lake may have once been fed by the Nile.
	www.magicalkenya.com /default.nsf/0/F498DF12C03F4D4143256C98003137CC?opendocument&l=1 (1532 words)

	Kenya - Lake Turkana
		The last miles out to the lake is through loose sand and there is no road at all, you have to know in which direction to drive to reach the abandoned hotel.
		My ancient atlas say Lake Rudolf and the current name Lake Turkana, named after one of the tribes living here, but elsewhere it is mentioned as The Jade Sea.
		They were going round the lake counter-clock wise on their own and were grateful for some tips.
	www.geocities.com /wand3ls/laketurkana.html (1918 words)

	Rudolf, Lake - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Rudolf, Lake" at HighBeam.
		Russian born dancer and choreographer Rudolf NUREYEV in Zurich to present the Manfred ballet at the Opera.
		Arts: Lord of the dance; Rudolf Nureyev, the greatest male dancer of our time, died 10 years ago.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-rudolf-l.html (193 words)

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