16 Facts About Lake Malawi

Lake Malawi, 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.

Lake Malawi is home to more species of fish than any other lake in the world, including at least 700 species of cichlids.

Lake Malawi is a meromictic lake, meaning that its water layers do not mix.

Lake Malawi is between 560 kilometres and 580 kilometres long, and about 75 kilometres wide at its widest point.

Lake Malawi is about 350 kilometres southeast of Lake Malawi Tanganyika, another of the great lakes of the East African Rift.

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Lake Malawi referred to it by a pair of nicknames: Lake of Stars and Lake of Storms.

Lake Malawi later served as a ferry and is currently being renovated into a mobile clinic at Monkey Bay.

Lake Malawi normally serves the southern part of the lake but if Ilala was out of service she operated the route to Karonga.

Lake Malawi's operator was the Tanzania Railway Corporation Marine Division until 1997, when it became the Marine Services Company Limited.

The worst Lake Malawi disaster was a ship accident by the MV Vipya in 1946 which resulted in 145 deaths.

Lake Malawi has for millennia provided a major food source to the residents of its shores since its waters are rich in fish.

Lake Malawi is noted for being the site of evolutionary radiations among several groups of animals, most notably cichlid fish.

The Lake Malawi haplochromines are mouthbrooders, but otherwise vary extensively in general behaviour and ecology.

Lake Malawi is home to 28 species of freshwater snails and 9 bivalves.

Lake Malawi is home to a total of four snail species in the genus Bulinus, which is a known intermediate host of bilharzia.

Lake Malawi is famous for the huge swarms of tiny, harmless lake flies, Chaoborus edulis.