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4 unusual facts about Lake Malawi


Calodendrum capense

It is native to a swath of the east side of the continent from the equatorial highlands of Kenya at its northern limit southwards through isolated mountains in Tanzania to both sides of Lake Malawi, the Mashonaland Plateau and Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe, and then along the lower slopes of the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa and in coastal forest from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town.

Lake Malawi

It is believed that these painted dogs seasonally move across the border from Malawi into Zambia to hunt in The South Luangwa Valley but seemingly they have plenty of success within Malawi as the pack consists of 7 adults and 10 pups.

Empty shells of large Lanistes are used as brood shelters by mbuna such as Pseudotropheus livingstonei, while a small catfish, which grows to less than 30 mm in length, uses smaller shells as brood shelters.

Nyassa

Lake Malawi, a lake between Malawi and Mozambique also known as Lake Nyassa


Friedrich Wilhelm Conrad Eduard Bornhardt

In 1896 he set out from Lindi to Lake Malawi where he stayed for ten months undertaking eight exploratory trips of the region.

Kinga people

The Kinga are an ethnic and linguistic group from Njombe Region, Tanzania, in the great Kipengere Range (formerly known as Livingstone Mountains) northeast of Lake Malawi.

Milo, Tanzania

There is a small village called Madunda about 15 km west of Milo, near the shore of Lake Malawi


see also

Likoma

Likoma Island, an island surrounded by Lake Malawi in East Africa

Likoma Island

The waters around Likoma, as is usual in Lake Malawi, host a number of Cichlid fishes; some species, such as Labidochromis caeruleus likomae, are endemic of the Likoma area.

Malawi

The Malawian Navy has 3 vessels operating on Lake Malawi, based in Monkey Bay.