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ID: 1118577
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1118577
 
Record Type: physical
Hierarchy of Victoria, Lake (lake)  Victoria, Lake (lake)

Coordinates:
Lat: 01 00 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -1.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 033 00 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 33.0000  decimal degrees

Note: World's second largest body of freshwater, located between Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya; was documented by Richard Speke in 1858, in his search for source of Nile; divided between England & Germany in 1890; was within British-controlled territory in 1920.

Names:
Victoria, Lake (preferred,C,V)
Lake Victoria (C,V,display)
Victoria Nyanza (C,V)
Nam Lolwe (C,V)
Ukerewe (H,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Victoria, Lake (lake)  ........  Victoria, Lake (lake) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Tanzania (nation)  ........  Tanzania (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Victoria, Lake (lake)  ............  Victoria, Lake (lake)
 
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Uganda (nation)  ........  Uganda (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Victoria, Lake (lake)  ............  Victoria, Lake (lake)
 
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Kenya (nation)  ........  Kenya (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Victoria, Lake (lake)  ............  Victoria, Lake (lake) (P)

Place Types:
lake (preferred, C)

Sources and Contributors:
Lake Victoria..........  [VP]
..........................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 19 June 2015
Nam Lolwe..........  [VP]
....................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 19 June 2015
Ukerewe..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 351
Victoria, Lake..........  [VP Preferred]
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 351
.............................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 205
Victoria Nyanza..........  [VP]
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 351
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 351
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 205
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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