The New Student's Reference Work/Albert Nyanza

Albert Nyanza, a large lake in east Central Africa. Its surface is 2,720 feet above the level of the sea. On its western coast are the Blue Mountains, rising 7,000 feet higher, and on the east steep cliffs rise almost as high. The White Nile, flowing from Lake Victoria, enters Lake Albert and issues from it near its northernmost point. Sir Samuel Baker was the first European who explored it in 1864. Area about 2,000 square miles.