Lakes Gallery

Sunset over the Virunga Mountains of the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda with the rural settlements dotting the landscape

A dramatic sunset with big cumulus storm clouds over the Virunga Mountains of the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda with rural settlements dotting the lush green landscape. Rwanda or R_publique du Rwanda, is a sovereign state in central and east Africa and one of the smallest countries on the African mainland. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rwanda is in the African Great Lakes region and its geography is dominated by mountains in the west and savanna to the east, with numerous lakes throughout the country. The climate is temperate to subtropical. The economy is based mostly on subsistence agriculture with coffee and tea being the major cash crops for export

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Going Home; The Whites of Their Eyes

December 1951: A family going home after a fishing trip on Lake Edward in Uganda. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5665 - The Whites of Their Eyes - pub. 1952 (Photo by Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images)

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AFRICA: LAKE VICTORIA. Aerial view of the shoreline of Lake Victoria, near the

AFRICA: LAKE VICTORIA.
Aerial view of the shoreline of Lake Victoria, near the border between Uganda and Kenya. Photographed in 1936

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