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Lake Victoria

name

Etymology

Named after Queen Victoria by the explorer John Hanning Speke, the first Briton to document it in 1858, while on an expedition with Richard Francis Burton.

Definitions

  1. The largest lake in Africa, with shoreline in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania

    The largest lake in Africa, with shoreline in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania; one of the African Great Lakes.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA