section_heading: Istraživanja
paragraph_text: Prvim Europljaninom koji je otkrio jezero smatra se škotski istraživač i misionar David Livingstone za vrijeme njegovih putovanja između 1867. i 1868.,<ref>David Livingstone and Horace Waller (ed.): The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa from 1865 to his Death. Two volumes, John Murray, London, 1874. iako su prije njega do jezera vjerojatno stigli portugalski trgovci Pereira i Francisco de Lacerda, no oni su više bili zainteresirani za trgovačke rute nego za istraživanja jezera.The Northern Rhodesia Journal online at NRZAM.org: Denis Paine: "Lake Mweru - Its Fish and Fishing Industry." Vol I, No. 2 pp7-13 (1950). Accessed 2 April 2007. "Lacerda was probably the first European to see Lake Mweru," p7. Greek fishermen: p8.