Victoria-nile meaning

from the southern end of the Nyanza, the Victoria Nile enters the lake, here not more than 6 m.

north of the junction of the Victoria Nile the lake suffers no material diminution in width.

Albert Nyanza, on the other hand, is threatened in the distant future with destruction from another cause - the filling of its bed by the alluvium poured into it by the Semliki, the Victoria Nile and, in a lesser degree, by other streams. The Semliki receives directly or indirectly the whole of the drainage of Ruwenzori, and also that of the eastern face of the Congo mountains as well as the drainage basin of Albert Edward Nyanza.

At the northern end of the lake the sediment brought down by the Victoria Nile is producing a similar effect.

It seems probable that, in a period geologically not very remote, the " Albertine " system will consist of one great river, extending from the northern slopes of the Kivu range, where the Ruchuru has its rise, to the existing junction of the Victoria Nile with Albert Nyanza.