Lake Albert is located in Uganda, where it is known as Mwitanzige and was formerly called Lake Mobutu Sese Seko. It is situated at the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Lake Albert is Africa’s Great Lake, the seventh largest lake in Africa and the world’s twenty-seventh largest lake by volume.
Lake Albert is found in the center of the continent, its it is 160km long and 30km wide, with a maximum depth of 51m and a surface elevation of 619mve sea level.
Lake Albert is a complicated system of the upper Nile; the main sources are the Victoria Nile, coming from Lake Victoria to the southeast and the Semiliki River, Lake Edward to the southwest.
The water of the Victoria Nile is less saline than that of Lake Albert. Its outlet is at the northernmost tip of the lake, where the Albert Nile becomes known as the Mountain Nile as it enters South Sudan.
The southern end of the Lake is where Semiliki is located, with several swamps.
Lake Albert was named Mwitanige by the Banyoro and Batooro as well as other local people .the lake was discovered by Samuel Bake and Sassa Flora.
