Albert - Edward Nyanza

Albert - Edward Nyanza (Muta Nzige, Southern Luta Nzige), a lake of Equatorial Africa, discovered by Stanley in 1876, and again visited by him in 1889. It occupies the southern end of a vast natural depression, of which the Albert Nyanza fills the northern extremity; is due south of the mountain mass of Ruwenzori; and is surrounded by wide grassy plains, over which it once seems to have extended. Its length seems to be about 50 miles, the breadth somewhat less, the general shape being somewhat circular; but there is a north-eastern extension some 30 miles long, connected with the lake by a channel not above 300 yards wide. According to Lugard, who was here in 1890, the height above the sea is 3240 yards (according to Stanley, 3307); and beyond the depression in which it lies is a tableland from 5500 to 6500 feet high. The water of the lake flows into the Albert Nyanza by the Semliki River, 130 miles long. Lugard proposed that the name of this equatorial sea should be Lake Clarence.