Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.

The area around Lake Tanganyika is warmer, averaging ; the highest mountain areas are cooler, averaging.

The lowest point in the country is at Lake Tanganyika, at, with the highest point being on Mount Heha, at.

There are a number of systems of transport in Burundi, including road and water-based infrastructure, the latter of which makes use of Lake Tanganyika.

Lake Tanganyika is used for transport, with the major port on the lake being Bujumbura.

* Kalemie to Kalundu ( the lake port at Uvira )-boat on Lake Tanganyika

* National Road No. 2, Kisangani-Bukavu – Goma, connecting the principal waterway systems of the country, namely Kinshasa-Kisangani on the Congo River and the Lake Kivu and Lake Tanganyika systems on the eastern edge of the country.

* Kalemie, Kulundu-Uvira and Moba on Lake Tanganyika to Kigoma ( Tanzania ), Bujumbura ( Burundi ) and Mpulungu ( Zambia ).

* Kalemie to Kalundu-Uvira on Lake Tanganyika

* 2005 – The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

It contains the Rift Valley lakes, which include some of the deepest lakes in the world ( up to 1, 470 metres ( 4, 800 ft ) deep at Lake Tanganyika ).

** 2005 Lake Tanganyika earthquake

Richard Francis Burton was the first European at Lake Tanganyika.

Rhodes sought permission to negotiate similar concessions covering all territory between the Limpopo River and Lake Tanganyika, then known as ' Zambesia '.

The province also borders Tanzania, although Katanga province and Tanzania do not share a land border but the border is within Lake Tanganyika.

* 1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, " Dr. Livingstone, I presume?

The other one is the Tanzania Railways Corporation, which provides services between Dar-es-Salaam and Kigoma, a town on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and between Dar-es-Salaam and Mwanza, a city on the shores of Lake Victoria.

To the north and west are the Great Lakes of respectively Lake Victoria ( Africa's largest lake ) and Lake Tanganyika ( the continent's deepest lake, known for its unique species of fish ) – and to the southwest lies Lake Nyasa.

The Kalambo Falls are the second highest in Africa and are located near the southern tip of Lake Tanganyika.

Thirteen years after being raised, the ships were burned during an attack in the Second World War, and almost nothing remains of the hulls, though many archeological treasures remain intact in the museum at Lake Nemi and in the Museo Nazionale Romano ( Palazzo Massimo ) at Rome.

The series of speed increases — later in 1955, in 1956, in 1957, in 1958, in 1959 — peaked on 31 December 1964 at Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia when he reached ; he remains the world's most prolific breaker of water speed records.

Despite the ape-like morphology of the bodies, H. habilis remains are often accompanied by primitive stone tools ( e. g. Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania and Lake Turkana, Kenya ).

All that remains of the Swans ' old Lake Oval ground, a single grandstand built in 1926 which for many years stood in a state of disrepair

The earliest human remains found to date are those found at Lake Mungo, a dry lake in the south west of New South Wales.

Today, the Salton Sea, a new version of historic Lake Cahuilla, remains as California's largest lake.

It spans from Floral City in Citrus County to Howey-in-the Hills in Lake County as a county road, while the segment in Bushnell between I-75 ( Exit 314 ) and US 301 remains a state road.

Although lumber was once a primary economic driver in Lake County, today only one mill remains, at Lakeview.

According to legend, the remains of Hernando De Soto are buried in Lake Chicot.

Although the mountains and the remains of the railway are not strictly in Altadena, the most direct trail to the sites, the Sam Merrill Trail, starts in Altadena at the top of Lake Avenue and leads to Mount Echo, about.

In 1903, The Lake House was renamed Lakeside Inn, and remains in operation.

Opposition from hospitals in Lake Barrington, Woodstock, McHenry, and Elgin were immediately voiced and it remains to be seen just when the hospital will be built.

Today, Lake Station remains a mostly residential community.

With its large African-American electorate, Lake Providence today remains a stronghold of the Democratic Party, after many of the conservative whites have switched to the Republican Party.

* Lake Dauterive or Lake Fausse Pointe is located to the East of Loreauville and remains a popular local lake for hunting, fishing, and recreational water sports.

Today, only one village remains in the control of the last Shakers, located at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester, Maine.

An area on the east side of Morrison Lake in the Coldwater River is considered to be part of the Coldwater urban area, although it remains unincorporated.

His remains are interred at Our Lady of Lake Huron Cemetery.

* St. Wenceslaus Church, named for Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia, a Roman Catholic Church founded nearby by immigrants from Bohemia who worked at the Leland Lake Superior Iron Foundry and at the Gills Pier sawmill also remains.

Houghton Lake remains one of Michigan's top resort and vacation destinations and attracts thousands of visitors to its shores each year.

It was changed in 1907 to The Forest Lake Advertiser and later to The Forest Lake Times, in 1916 as it remains to this day.

Derryfield remains a neighborhood in contemporary Manchester, along its easternmost area adjacent to Massabesic Lake.