page_title: Ukerewe Island
hierarchical_section_title: Ukerewe Island
caption_attribution_description: English: OnEarth WMS NASA view of Lake Victoria Landsat 7 satellite imagery (1999-2003)
context_page_description: Ukerewe is the fifth-largest lake island in the world. With an area of 530 km², it is also the largest island in Lake Victoria and the largest lake island in Africa. Ukerewe Island is situated in the Ukerewe District of Tanzania, 45 km north of Mwanza to which it is linked by ferry. A ferry crossing of 3.8 km links the island to a dirt road on the eastern lake shore, which runs to Kibara and Musoma. The shoreline of Ukerewe Island is carved into numerous bays and it is surrounded by at least a dozen smaller islands. Its largest community is Nansio.
  Ukerewe is known for having a large population of Africans with albinism. Many of the first of them to live there were taken to and abandoned on the island by their families as children. Despite comprising an exceptionally high percentage of the island's population, they are still, as throughout Tanzania, an oppressed minority on the island, though it appears to have avoided the killings of albinos, who are "harvested" for black magic rituals, that regularly occurs in Tanzania.
context_section_description: Ukerewe  is the fifth-largest lake island in the world. With an area of 530 km² (200 sq mi), it is also the largest island in Lake Victoria and the largest lake island in Africa. Ukerewe Island is situated in the Ukerewe District of Tanzania, 45 km (28 mi) north of Mwanza to which it is linked by ferry. A ferry crossing of 3.8 km (2.4 mi) links the island to a dirt road on the eastern lake shore, which runs to Kibara and Musoma. The shoreline of Ukerewe Island is carved into numerous bays and it is surrounded by at least a dozen smaller islands.  Its largest community is Nansio.
  Ukerewe is known for having a large population of Africans with albinism. Many of the first of them to live there were taken to and abandoned on the island by their families as children. Despite comprising an exceptionally high percentage of the island's population, they are still, as throughout Tanzania, an oppressed minority on the island, though it appears to have avoided the killings of albinos, who are "harvested" for black magic rituals, that regularly occurs in Tanzania.
caption: Ukerewe detached from coast in the southeastern region of Lake Victoria
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