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Lake Malawi

Lake Malawi
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About Lake Malawi

Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.

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At its deepest, Lake Malawi is about 700 metres deep, but its water level has gone up and down over time and has plunged dramatically.

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More facts about Lake Malawi

  1. The sleeper cichlid, which you get in Lake Malawi, does a thing called thanatosis, where it pretends to be dead.

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  2. There were once roughly two Western boats on Lake Malawi, and unfortunately one was English and one was German.

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Coordinates: -12.0000, 34.5000

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