evidence: LAKE VICTORIA (KENYA , TANZANIA & UGANDA) [...] Plus, Lake Victoria offers its own varied collection of wildlife, befitting such a vast lake. On its shores and wetlands, you’ll find hippo, otter, reedbuck, Nile crocodile, and many varieties of turtles. Its colorful and busy world of avian life includes fish eagles, egrets, cormorants, and gannets. [...] At 59,947 sq. km (23,146 sq mi), Lake Victoria is the second largest fresh-water lake in the world, after Lake Superior, and the largest body of water in continental Africa.