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Kenia Uganda Tanganyika Lake Victoria Dhow Ship stamp 1937

Kenia Uganda Tanganyika Lake Victoria Dhow Ship stamp 1937

$ 2.1

Availability: 45 in stock
  • Topic: Ships
  • Quality: Used
  • Grade: VF (Very Fine)
  • Certification: Genuine

    Description

    Nice stamp.
    Lake Victoria
    is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was renamed Lake Victoria after Queen Victoria by the explorer John Hanning Speke, in his reports—the first Briton to document it. (It has since been recognized that the native guides used the name Lake Nyanza to describe it to him.) Speke accomplished this in 1858, while on an expedition with Richard Francis Burton to locate the source of the Nile River. This expedition was financially sponsored by the Royal Geographic Society.