Lake Uniamési
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lake-uniam-si-277-11998451
title:
Lake Uniamési
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Lake Uniamési or the Uniamesi Sea was the name given by missionaries in the 1840s and 1850s to a huge lake or inland sea they supposed to lie within a region of Central East Africa with the same name. Three missionaries, confined to the coastal belt, heard of the region of Unyamwezi in the northwest of what is now Tanzania and exaggerated its size to include a large part of the continental interior. They heard of a great lake, and imagined an enormous lake that would be the source of the Benue,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Uniam%C3%A9si
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2023-08-06T04:30:24Z
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