Lake Victoria (disambiguation)

Last updated April 16, 2019

Lake Victoria or Victoria Lake may refer to:

Lake Victoria, a lake in Africa
in Australia:
- Lake Victoria (New South Wales), a lake in New South Wales, Australia
- Lake Victoria (Victoria), a shallow saline lake on the Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria, Australia
- Lake Victoria, one of the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria, Australia
The Gippsland Lakes are a network of lakes, marshes and lagoons in east Gippsland, Victoria, Australia covering an area of about 354 square kilometres (137 sq mi). The largest of the lakes are Lake Wellington, Lake King and Lake Victoria. The lakes are collectively fed by the Avon, Thomson, Latrobe, Mitchell, Nicholson and Tambo rivers.
Lake Victoria, Michigan, United States, a small lake and census-designated place
Lake Victoria (Minnesota), a lake in Douglas County, Minnesota
Laguna Victoria, a lake in Bolivia
Victoria Lake (Newfoundland and Labrador), a lake in Canada
Victoria Lake (New Zealand), a lake in Hagley Park, Christchurch, New Zealand
Zorkul, a lake on the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan once known as Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria 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.

Lake Victoria, a naturally occurring shallow freshwater lake of the Murray catchment and part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the western Riverina region of south western New South Wales, Australia.

Lake Victoria is a 139-hectare (340-acre) shallow saline lake on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria in Australia, close to the township of Point Lonsdale and part of the Lonsdale Lakes Nature Reserve administered by Parks Victoria.

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Lake Victoria (disambiguation)

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