VANISHED LAKE
A lake has come into the news again by apparently going out of existence. It is Lake Stefanie in East Africa, and usually it is about 40 miles long and 15 wide, but a recent aerial exploration party from Italy reports that this great sheet of water has vanished, leaving nothing but a pool. Lake Stefanie, one of the lowest of a series of lakes in the East African rift valley, has been regarded as being within the Abyssinian Empire since 1907. It was discovered in JWBI by Count Samuel Teleki, and is fed by overflows from lakes about 70 miles away, as well as by many streams. It seems that from time to time it dries up, for in 1899 an explorer found it to be without water, and two years later water was only to bo found nt the northern end. Now, it seems, tho lake has dried up altogether, and tho villagers who lived near its margin and tho wild life which depended upon it have all moved away or died.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23181, 29 October 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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176VANISHED LAKE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23181, 29 October 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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