The lakes of the Western or Albertine Rift, with Lake Victoria, include the largest, deepest, and oldest of the Rift Valley Lakes.
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The best illustrated example of sympatric speciation is that of the cichlids of East Africa inhabiting the Rift Valley lakes, particularly Lake Victoria, Lake Malawi and Lake Tanganyika.
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Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile, lies in the Ethiopian highlands north of the Rift Valley; however, it is not a Rift Valley lake.
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Among Rift Valley lakes, Lake Tanganyika far surpasses all others in terms of crustacean and freshwater snail richness ( both in total number of species and number of endemics ).
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To the north, the road bifurcates into the Rift Valley lake system ( the others being Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika ), and is unofficially known as the Lake of Stars.
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Petroleum was formed in the Swan Coastal Plain and Pilbara during this rifting, presumably in a rift valley lake where the bottom was deoxygenated ( akin to Africa's Lake Tanganyika today)
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He has been active in ecohydrological research at Rift Valley lakes in East Africa, particularly Lake Naivasha and Lake Bogoria, Kenya since 1982 and in conservation-related river research in Eastern England over the same time period.
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""'Xenopus victorianus " "', the "'Lake Victoria clawed frog "'or "'Mwanza frog "', is a species of frog in the Pipidae family found in the countries surrounding the rift valley lakes of eastern Africa : Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo . " Xenopus laevis victorianus " is no longer valid.
