Lake Victoria

By Thomas Stokes

Geography Lake Victoria is located next to Kenya, Tanzania

and Uganda Lake Victoria is 26,828 square miles in size

making it the second largest fresh water lake, next to Lake Superior.

Though it’s so large the deepest it reaches is 286 feet.

It lies on an elevated plateau and is 370 feet above sea level.

The coastline is 2000 miles long It extends a maximum of 250 miles north to south

and 160 miles east to west.

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Largest Islands Ukerewe, Sesse, Ukara, Kome, Lolui

and Mfanganu Lake Victoria has some 3,000 Islands

ranging from small to big (Sesse and Kome)

Ukerewe is the largest island in Lake Victoria and also the largest inland island in Africa.

Ukerewe belongs to Tanzania and is 535 square kilometers

History Lake Victoria was formed around 400,000 years ago

from west flowing rocks that dammed up a river making a lake.

The lakes shallowness is due to the climate changes that it has faced

Cores that scientists have pulled up tell them that Lake Victoria has dried up 3 times since existence. The most recent was about 17,300 years ago.

The First recorded history of Lake Victoria comes from Arab Traders searching for Gold, Ivory and Slaves

The first map recorded was made around 1160 called Al Adrisi

History Lake Victoria is also referred to as Victoria

Nyanza (Lake Victoria) Also sometimes called Ukerewe like the lakes

biggest island. The lake was first sighted on an English

exploration to central Africa led by John Speke. Speke named the lake after Queen Victoria

Though Speke found Lake Victoria it wasn’t recorded until American Explorer Henry Stanley found it some years later.

Speke found out that it was the reservoir for the Nile.

Operation Entebbe On the 27 of June, 1976, Air France Flight 139 took off

from Athens on its way to Paris when two Palestinians from a radical group out of the “PLO” and two German Terrorists took over the plane .

The terrorists turned the plane around to Benghazi, Libya for a pit stop and then strait on though to Entebbe Airport, Uganda

When the Terrorists reached Entebbe Airport they took the 248 hostages and the 12 crew members to the abandoned wing of the terminal 2.7 kilometers away from the regular terminal.

The Terrorists split up the passengers into two groups, Jews and Gentiles. The hostages let all the Gentiles go and made the Israeli and French Jews hostages.

There were 103 Jewish hostages remaining.

. Entebbe

The Raid/ Operation Thunderbolt The Israeli Government got a tip that the

plane was in Uganda so on July 1, 1996, the secret Israeli commando group (that Mr. Nozick was a part of) started to come up with a plan to take down the Terrorists

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4Bou72k2fY

The Battle The teams of three go in through the door and free all

the hostages and kill all the terrorists The group outside the building distracting the guards

shoots down all the guards outside but they are having trouble with the guard tower. So instead of shooting, Gen. Dan Shomron orders for RPG’s to be fired at the tower

When the hostages are escorted out the Israelis shoot down 11 of the Ugandans fighter planes that were un-manned on the ground with machine guns and RPG’s

Throughout the raid only three hostages died from the Israeli Commando firing and Lieutenant Colonel Yonatan Netanyahu who was sniped out from the control tower

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