Lake George (Uganda) the course of the Katonga river from Lake Victoria during his trans-African expedition. Thinking it was part of Lake Albert, he named it "Beatrice Gulf". Exploration plans were aborted due to the threat of conflict with the kingdom of Bunyoro. On his second visit to the area, in 1888 during the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, Stanley also discovered Lake Edward, and realizing that there were two independent lakes, and gave Lake George its current name. Lake George (Uganda) Lake George or Lake Dweru is a lake in Uganda. It covers a total surface area of and is a part of
Lake George (New South Wales) catchment into the Yass River, but then the Lake George Escarpment rose due to major crustal movement along a strong fault line, blocking this drainage and forming the lake. Lake George has in previous Ice Ages been much larger and deeper. The thickness of sediment beneath the lake exceeds , according to a Bureau of Mineral Resources Canberra drilling programme in the 1982/83 summer. The oldest sediments, which lie some distance above the bedrock, were dated at 4–5 million years using spore and pollen analysis and magnetic reversal stratigraphy. At long and wide, Lake George is long, largely flat and