evidence: Lake Victoria also known as Victoria Nyanza is the largest lake in Africa and second largest freshwater lake in the world. The lake is located between Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania and covers an area of 68800 sq km with the Uganda part covering 45%. The coastline runs 2000 miles around three countries. Lake Victoria was named after Queen Victoria by the British explorer John Speke. However that lake was discovered way back by the locals who left no written records before it was sighted by the Europeans in 1858. According to Speke’s findings it is claimed that lake Victoria is the source of river Nile. Lake Victoria contains about 1000 archipelago islands including the 84 of Ssese islands. These range from tiny spits of land to larger inhabited islets. Each inhabited island has its own character, customs and history for instance the Mfangano island has the ancient rock painting made by the Batwa people. Apart from islands the lake harbors a variety of wildlife animals. [...] Lake Victoria has a number of mammal species and some of these include; hippopotamus, crocodiles, wildebeest, elephant, buffaloes, giant otter shrew, chimpanzees and marsh mongoose. However these mammal species appear in low numbers. The lake also supports a number of bird species. It also contains reptiles such as Nile crocodile, crustaceans, African helmeted turtle, and four species of freshwater crab. Lake Victoria is also a home to about 200 fish species and haplochromine cichlid. However, most of these species went extinct and the number has reduced to 80%. Tourist attractions on lake Victoria