TURKANA, LAKE

c.2,500 sq mi (6,475 sq km), NW Kenya and SW Ethiopia, E Africa, in the Great Rift Valley; alt. 1,230 ft (375 m). Surrounded by desolate, volcanic mountains, the 170-mi- (274-km-) long lake is the focus of interior drainage and has no outlet; it is becoming increasingly saline. It was formerly known as Lake Rudolf.

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books on: Turkana Lake  - 261 results

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The Family Herds: A Study of Two Pastoral Tribes in East Africa, the Jie and Turkana
Book by P. H. Gulliver; Routledge & K. Paul, 1955
Subjects: Cattle--Uganda, Jie (African People), Turkana (African People)
...Province of Kenya, though some Turkana live elsewhere. 1 The territory...the west and south-west of Lake Rudolf, south of Ethiopia...secessionists and their descendants--the Turkana--moved gradually eastwards...Marile, who then lived west of Lake Rudolf, the Samburu to the south...
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Quest for the Jade Sea: Colonial Competition around an East African Lake
Book by Pascal James Imperato; Westview Press, 1998
Subjects: Ethiopia--Foreign relations--Great Britain, Great Britain--Foreign relations--Ethiopia, Rudolf, Lake (Kenya and Ethiopia)--Discovery and exploration--European, Rudolf, Lake (Kenya and Ethiopia)--Politics and government
...Teleki with two elephants shot south of Lake Baringo, December 16, 1887 Turkana man of the 1880s with a knobkerrie, wrist knife...Africa. Lake Rudolf, which is also known as Lake Turkana, lies in the eastern arm of the great Rift...
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Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca
Book by Ben Orlove; University of California Press, 2002
...such a setting, as is the worlds oldest lake, Baikal, in Siberia, and the lakes of...Tanganyika, and the smaller Albert and Turkana. Like these other ancient lakes, Titicaca...shorelines, now standing on hillsides above the lake. Half a million years ago, one of these...
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East African Ecosystems and Their Conservation
Book by T. R. McClanahan, T. P. Young; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects: Biotic Communities--Africa, East, Ecosystem Management--Africa, East, Nature Conservation--Africa, East
...198 Lake Turkana 198...204 Lake Turkana 204...without a surface outlet, like Lake Turkana, Lake Manyara and the lakes of...
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Being Maasai: Ethnicity & Identity in East Africa
Book by Thomas Spear, Richard Waller; James Currey, 1993
Subjects: Ethnicity--Kenya--Congresses, Ethnicity--Tanzania--Congresses, Masai (African People)--Ethnic Identity--Congresses, Masai (African People)--Social Life And Customs--Congresses
...northern reaches of the Rift west of Lake Turkana, Turkana drove Maa-speakers south...to the and environment of the Lake Turkana basin, where herding small stock...Dodos escarpment in the west and Lake Turkana in the east. If so, they would...
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journal articles on: Turkana Lake  - 19 results

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The Nile Perch in Lake Victoria: Local Responses and Adaptations
Journal article by Robert Pringle; Africa, Vol. 75, 2005
Subjects: Economic conditions--Analysis, Fish industry--Economic aspects, Fish population declines--Control, Fish populations--Control, Fish populations--Thinning, Fisheries--Economic aspects, Lake Victoria--Economic aspects, Lake Victoria--Environmental aspects
...piscivorous fish native to the River Nile and to Lakes Albert in Uganda and Turkana in Kenya. During the 1950s and early 1960s, hundreds of these fish were introduced into Lake Victoria and its adjoining rivers and lakes. This was part of a bifurcated...
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Massacre at Ribo Post: Expansion and Expediency on the Colonial Frontier in East Africa*
Journal article by David M. Anderson; The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 37, 2004
Subjects: African history, Colonialism, East Africa, Economic expansion, International trade, Lonsdale, John
...from the region to the west of Lake Turkana reveal that ivory caravans from...Abyssinian raids along the shores of Lake Turkana and as far south as Karamoja and...into the Kerio Valley and toward Lake Turkana.42 Johnston revised his scheme...
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My Journey through African Heritage
Journal article by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir; African Arts, Vol. 39, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, My Journey Through African Heritage (Book)--Book reviews
...After receiving a permit to travel to Lake Turkana, he and his companions hitched a...eventually made their way to the lake. On successive trips Donovan collected...practices. He "was captivated by Turkana designs, a study in artistic economy...
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East Africa
Journal article by T. A. Barringer; Africa, 1998
Subjects: Africa--Bibliography
...Turkana, African study monographs...1404 Onganga, J., The River-Lake...illness in Turkana: a preliminary...
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Diurnal River Flow Variations and Development Planning in the Tropics
Journal article by A.S. Wain; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 160, 1994
Subjects: Kenya--Climate, Rain and rainfall--Research, Rivers--Environmental aspects, Water resources development--Kenya
...the Turkwel river, to Lake Turkana. In its lower reaches...to the Kerio river and Lake Turkana. The third high altitude...thunderstorm activity near Lake Victoria. Weather 25(9...W.T.W. 1974 The South Turkana Expedition: Scientific...
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magazine articles on: Turkana Lake  - 16 results

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Omo Sapiens
Magazine article by Christophe Ratier; Geographical, Vol. 73, September 2001
Subjects: Omo Valley, Ethiopia--Social aspects, Rivers--Social aspects
...after 1,000 kilometres, it reaches the end of its journey and empties into Lake Turkana on the plains of northern Kenya. The tribes that live along the river -- the Turkana, the Dassanech, the Nyagatom, the Karo and the Mursi to name but a few...
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Kenya: A Landscape in Flux
Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 77, September 2005
Subjects: Images, Photographic, Kenya--History, Kenyans--History, Photographs
...Victoria in 1896. It reached the lake in 1901 and was subsequently...woman, date unknown; Right: Turkana people dancing, photographed...tribes such as the Maasai and Turkana found themselves marginalised...from a train on the Mombasa to Lake Victoria line. The construction...
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Water Wars?
Magazine article by Sami Jaffer; New African, April 2009
...revolts. Is it possible that there may be a connection? Could it be that the Darfur conflict is due to the shrinking of Lake Turkana, in neighbouring Kenya? Oil is not the only commodity with value. Water is soon to become a scarce resource as our planet...
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The Archaeology of Compassion
Magazine article by Terisa Green; The Humanist, Vol. 63, May-June 2003
Subjects: Compassion--History, Compassion--Political aspects
...and from near the largest desert lake in the world, Lake Turkana in the far north of Kenya, the key player in our most...stands for Kenya National Museum-East Rudolph, since Lake Turkana was once known as Lake Rudolph). Although her skull...
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Richard Leakey: Africa's Passionate Voice for Nature
Magazine article by Scott Harris; E, Vol. 7, July 1996
Subjects: Conservationists--Interviews, Consumption (Economics)--Environmental aspects, Extinction (Biology)--Environmental aspects, Human beings--Influence on nature, Leakey, Richard E.--Interviews, Population--Environmental aspects
...made his first important fossil finds when his team uncovered unusually well-preserved ancient human remains in Kenyas Lake Turkana region. In the same year, Leakey, then only 23, was hired as director of the National Museum of Kenya which, over the...
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One Tribe Fired My Imagination as a Boy. It Took Me 25 Years to Find Them. Their Fate? Engulfed by Catastrophe, Abandoned by the World, and Facing a Slow Death That Will Diminish Us All Fergal Keane's Compelling Dispatch from the People on a Long March to Extinction; THE LAKE - A LAST HOPE Because of the Drought, Growing Numbers of Turkana Are Turning to Lake Turkana for Survival. .....
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 12, 2006
...Numbers of Turkana Are Turning to Lake Turkana for Survival. ...... Byline...Lokoel grew up in a small village by Lake Turkana. Soft-spoken and courteous, he...livestock in the worst affected areas. .Lake Turkana - known locally as the Sea Of Many...
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A Country in Crisis; as Drought Overwhelms Kenya, Oxfam's Alun McDonald Sees Starving Animals Slaughtered, Lakes Disappearing and Violence Soaring
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), October 21, 2009
Subjects: Fishes
...successive year of poor rains. We head for Lake Turkana, the largest desert lake in the world...Kenya, bringing valuable income to Turkanas lakeside villages. However, Paul...rains, freshwater streams enter the lake and you can catch lots of fish close...
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We Are Worlds Apart but United by Grief of Losing Our Families; Campaign Urges Countries to Stamp out Illegal Arms Dealing
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), June 19, 2006
...their village, near the banks of Lake Turkana, was raided by a neighbouring tribe...fishing nets for the fishermen at the lake. Without this, they would have nothing...Ethiopian border at Todonganya. The Turkana tribe and the Ethiopian Merile tribe...
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To Us, Global Warming Is Just a Mild Winter and Being Told to Take Fewer Cheap Flights. in Lodwar Mothers Are BURYING BABIES; EXCLUSIVE DAY ONE: THE REAL THREAT POSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE NOW
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), November 27, 2006
Subjects: Air pollution, Global warming
...of people whose bones push through their skin. Even the giant lake after which the district takes its name is shrinking, taking with it the regions only fishing grounds. The Turkana have lived for centuries on the milk, blood and sometimes the...
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A World in Crisis; Climate Change Is Already Causing Starvation for the Tribes of Kenya
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), July 6, 2007
Subjects: Climate change, Climatic changes, Droughts
...to dust and the areas only lake is rapidly shrinking to nothing...climate change, for the ancient Turkana tribe that has existed here...desperately in need of food aid, the Turkana is a tribe pushed to the limits...the last 100 years and the Turkana, suffering some of the hottest...
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encyclopedia articles on: Turkana Lake  - 9 results

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Turkana, Lake
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TURKANA, LAKE c.2,500 sq mi (6,475 sq km), NW Kenya...volcanic mountains, the 170-mi- (274-km-) long lake is the focus of interior drainage and has...increasingly saline. It was formerly known as Lake Rudolf. ____________________ Copyright...
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Rudolf, Lake
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RUDOLF, LAKE see Turkana, Lake . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Oromo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...They number about 20 million and are largely Muslim. Originally from N Somalia, they later migrated to the region of Lake Turkana (Lake Rudolf). In the mid-16th cent. they began to move into the Ethiopian highlands. Never a united group, they were not...
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Kenya
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...area. In the northwest, straddling Lake Turkana and the Kulal Mts., are high-lying...caravan trading between Mombasa and Lake Victoria. Beginning in the mid-19th...1895 1901) from Mombasa to Kisumu on Lake Victoria in order to facilitate trade...
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Leakey, Richard Erskine Frere
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...academic training, he received funding from the National Geographic Society to conduct research on human evolution at Lake Turkana (1969 75), where a Homo habilis dating from 1.9 million years ago was discovered (1972). With Roger Lewin, Leakey...
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