Lake Albert

Lake Albert, northernmost of the lakes in the Western Rift Valley, in east-central Africa, on the border between Congo (Kinshasa) and Uganda. In 1864 the lake was first visited by a European, Samuel Baker, who was seeking the sources of the Nile; he named it for Queen Victoria’s consort and published his experiences in The Albert N’yanza (1866). Romolo Gessi, an Italian soldier and explorer, circumnavigated it in 1876. Both Henry Morton Stanley and Mehmed...