evidence: Lake Malawi, aka Lake Nyasa, is the southernmost lake of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. It fills a chasm in the Earth’s crust, at the edges of which are now the states of Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. [...] In 1859, the famous African explorer David Livingstone explored the Shire River and traveled along it to the southern shore of Lake Malawi. The poetically inclined Scotsman called Nyasa "Lake of Stars": the sun played so brightly with its rays on the water surface. But on the map he labeled it as Lake Nyasa. In 1964 Nyasaland, a former colony of England, gained independence and began to call itself Malawi, and the lake as Lake Malawi. But the people of Mozambique call it Niassa, in the Portuguese manner. [...] Lake Nyasa straddles the borders of three African countries: Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. The northern part of the lake is a territory of conflict: the dispute over the distribution of lake waters between Malawi and Tanzania is still unresolved.