Lake Victoria  Lake Victoria  Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza
(also known as Ukerewe, The Eye of the Rhino, Nalubaale, Sango,
or Lolwe) is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was named
for Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, by John Hanning Speke,
the first European to visit this lake.  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 second 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 eighth largest continental lake, and it contains about
2,750 cubic kilometers (2.2 billion acre-feet) of water.  Lake
Victoria receives most of its water from direct precipitation
and from thousands of small streams. The largest stream flowing
into this lake is the Kagera River, the mouth of which lies on
the lake's western shore. There are two rivers that leave the
lake; the White Ni