Edward, Lake

Edward, Lake
Lake, eastern Africa.

One of the great lakes of the western Great Rift Valley, it lies on the border of Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda and is 48 mi (77 km) long and 26 mi (42 km) wide. On the northeast it is connected to the smaller Lake George. Lake Edward empties north through the Semliki River to Lake Albert. The lake abounds in fish; wildlife on its shores is protected within Virunga National Park and Queen Elizabeth National Park. It was named by Henry Morton Stanley, who visited the lake in 1888–89.

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French  Lac Édouard,  

      one of the great lakes of the Western Rift Valley in eastern Africa. It lies astride the border of Congo (Kinshasa) and Uganda at an elevation of 2,992 feet (912 m) and is 48 miles (77 km) long and 26 miles (42 km) wide. On the northeast it is connected to the smaller Lake George. The two lakes have a combined surface area of 970 square miles (2,500 square km). From Lake George, which receives the Ruwenzori River, water flows through the 20-mile- (32-kilometre-) long Kazinga Channel to Lake Edward, also fed by the Rutshuru River (crossing a wide plain in the south). Lake Edward empties northward through the Semliki River to Lake Albert (after 1973, also called Lake Mobutu Sese Seko), the waters of which empty as the Albert Nile. Lake Edward's northern and southern shores are low plains, but most of its east and west banks are steep trough walls. To the north, the Ruwenzori Range rises to 16,795 feet (5,119 m) at Margherita Peak. The lake abounds in fish; wildlife about its shores is protected within Congo's Virunga National Park and Uganda's Queen Elizabeth (Ruwenzori) National Park.

      Lake George was visited in 1875 by Henry (later Sir Henry) Morton Stanley (Stanley, Sir Henry Morton), who named it Beatrice Gulf (for a daughter of Queen Victoria) in the belief that it was part of Lake Albert. In 1888–89 Stanley ascended the Semliki to Lake Edward, which he named after Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII).

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