Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was named after Queen Victoria by the explorer John Hanning Speke, who was the first European to discover it, and which he did alone in 1858 while on an expedition with Richard Francis Burton to locate the source of the Nile River.
With a surface area of 68,800 square kilometres (26,600 sq
mi), Lake Victoria is Africa’s largest lake by area, and it is the largest
tropical lake in the world. Lake Victoria is the world's 2nd largest freshwater
lake by surface area; only Lake Superior in North America is larger. In terms
of its volume, Lake Victoria is the world's ninth largest continental lake, and
it contains about 2,750 cubic kilometers (2.2 billion acre-feet) of water.
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