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The lake Albert is one of the African big lakes. It is the seventh Lac of Africa for the surface. Its other names are: Albert Nyanza ; Me arch-zighé and in the past lake Mobutu Sese Seko . It is one of full of fish world.

The gray line appears the border between the Congo (DRC) (left) and the Uganda (right).]] The lake Albert is in the center of the continent, the border between the Uganda and the Democratic republic of Congo. The lake Albert is most septentrional of the chain of lakes of the Vallée of the Great Rift. It is long approximately 160 kilometers and 30 kilometers broad, with a maximum depth of 51 meters, at an altitude of 619 m above the sea level.

The lake belongs to the complicated system of the the higher Nile. Its primary sources are the the Nile of Victoria, coming from the Lake Victoria with south-east, and the river Semliki, coming from the Lac Edouard in south-west. Its exit, at the northern end of the lake, is the the Nile Albert (known under the name of the Nile of the mountains when it penetrates with the Sudan).

At the southern end of the lake, where Semliki emerges, is a Marécage, while an assembly line called blue Montagnes borders north-western bank. Among the few localities bordering the lake, Butiaba and Pakwach.

In 1864, the exploring Samuel Baker was the first European to discover the lake. It named it according to Albert of Saxony-Cobourg-Gotha, unites Reine Victoria then recently deceased.

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  • List of the lakes of the Democratic republic of Congo

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