Lake Victoria Lake Victoria Lake Victoria (' in Luo; ' in Uganda; "" in Kinyarwanda and some Bantu languages) is one of the African Great Lakes. 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. With a surface area of approximately , Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, and the world's second largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North
Source of the Nile (board game) a player gains for particular discoveries will vary depending on their choice. In particular: "Source of the Nile" won the Charles S. Roberts Awards for "Best Pre-20th Century Game of 1978" and "Best Amateur Game of 1978" in 1978. Source of the Nile (board game) Source of the Nile is a board game by Ross Maker and David Wesely. It was released by Discovery Games in 1977 and re-released by Avalon Hill in 1979. The inventors released a 25th anniversary edition of the game in 2003. Set in the 19th century, the object of the game is to explore the