Talk:Lake Victoria

message: I uploaded a cropped NASA satellite picture of Lake Victoria; it may be useful despite the few clouds hanging over it. I don't have enough time to find a nice place for it in the article so I'm parking it here.  — mark ✎ 14:01, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useful picture 

message: The reason, says the report, is to maintain sufficient flows of water over the dam's turbines and keep the lights on in Uganda.
"The resultant over-release of water... is contributing to the severe drop in water level in Lake Victoria," says the report, written by Daniel Kull, a hydrological engineer based in Nairobi, for International Rivers Network, a US green group.
The Owens Fall hydroelectric project dates back to 1954.
Until then, the lake spilled out over a natural rock weir, to form the Victoria Nile, which eventually becomes the White Nile.
Britain, Uganda's colonial power, blasted out the weir and replaced it with the first dam, now called the Nalubaale dam, thus effectively transforming Lake Victoria into a vast hydroelectric reservoir.
Maybe someone can build on this? Ksenon 19:20, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hydroelectricity, water level falling 

message: I read in World book it is 26,828 sq miles. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.206.165.12 (talk) 03:27, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Size?

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with File:OwenFalls.jpg

message: See documentary Darwin's Nightmare. Everything's not hunky-dory in the Lake Victoria area. Particularly ignored in this article is the fish-for-guns trade (which is so absurd that no one believes me when I tell them about it).
Yes! i do. And you could add it to the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.150.86.152 (talk) 01:48, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fish-for-Guns trade 

message: Propose adding small list to first section: subdivisions bordering the lake: Tanzania: Kagera Region, Mwanza Region, Mara Region.  Uganda: Central Region, Eastern Region.  Kenya: Nyanza Province and Western Province (Kenya).  Mr Accountable (talk) 19:33, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regions and provinces bordering Lake Victoria 

message: It is mentioned that the original spot where the lake existed would have certain characteristics; one of them being high salinity.  Why would this be?--Longinus876 (talk) 16:25, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evidence that the original lake had dried up 

message: This article states in one place that the Katonga River and the White Nile flow out of Lake Victoria and in two places the same article states that the While Nile is the only river that flows out of Lake Victoria.  The Kotanga River article also states that it flows out of Lake Victoria.  Which is correct? Holy (talk) 20:16, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The incorrect claim that the Katonga River flows out of Lake Victoria has been removed and the original text of that paragraph reworded. After a careful review, no verification for the claim could be found in the reference source cited. However, the same reference source does correctly state elsewhere that the (Victoria) Nile is the only outflow from Lake Victoria, so I have reused the source (expanding the reference details to ensure the cited source is more complete and verifiable). There is a similar problem with the entry for the article page on the Katonga River which I will attend to soon, provided nobody else does so first. In addition, the White Nile does not technically begin until the Nile reaches South Sudan. In view of this, I have provided only a very brief explanation, as this information is better dealt with in the relevant articles about the Nile River. Peter B. (talk) 14:19, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction re: outflowing rivers 

message: Problems on captions on ...   99.35.13.28 (talk) 06:29, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  problems on captions on Image-Languages-Lakevictoria-fr.svg 

message: The Victoria Nyanza: the land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects By Paul Kollmann
http://books.google.com/books?id=sLQhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Rajmaan (talk) 22:58, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The People 

message: The head of the article states that; "The lake was named after Queen Victoria, by David Livingstone, an officer in the British Indian Army."
However the article itself states "[John Hanning] Speke named the lake after Queen Victoria." Livingstone's article says that he names Victoria Falls, so I suspect that there might have been a mixup, but I have no independent sources for that.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Siind (talk • contribs) 22:25, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: You are correct. This error has been rectified and supplied with reference sources. Peter B. (talk) 14:22, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Identity of namer 

message: Almost all of the entire invasive species section reads as if it were written by a 10th grader.  As well, there are zero citations in the whole section.Pdmckinley (talk) 16:42, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Invasive Species section cleanup 

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message: Etymology needs a separate section, as is the normal form. -Inowen (talk) 07:55, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate etymology to section 

message: :"The lake was named after Queen Victoria by the explorer John Hanning Speke, the first Briton to document it. Speke accomplished this in 1858, while on an expedition with Richard Francis Burton to locate the source of the Nile River." 
How is naming a lake an "accomplishment?" -Inowen (nlfte) 23:16, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Accomplished 

message: Lake Victoria is the name given by the colonial power. It is an insult! I suggest changing the name of the article to an African name.--Sigmundg (talk) 11:29, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: If you do a quick research consulting the title of the wikipedia pages in africans languages you can see that the majority of them call the lake with the same (translated) name. 93.45.87.207 (talk) 11:41, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: That does not change the criticism 66.44.30.95 (talk) 13:06, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Our naming policy says,  The article does include (in the 3rd paragraph) the name of the lake in four different local languages (and there are other languages, presumably with fewer speakers, that have not been included), but an article can have only one name, and, per policy, that name is the one that will be most familiar to English speakers world-wide. Donald Albury 16:20, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: How did the downwarpinp occur 41.210.147.30 (talk) 09:46, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just added a bit the Geology section that covers that. - Donald Albury 16:57, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formation