Lake Chrissie is a lake in the Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

 province of South Africa. It is a shallow and large lake, with a maximum depth of about 6 m, 9 km long, 3 km wide. The lake is named after Christiana Pretorius, daughter of Marthinus Wessel Pretorius

Marthinus Wessel Pretorius

The son of the famous Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was the first president of the South African Republic, and also compiled the constitution of the Republic....

, first president of the boer

Boer

Boer is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State,...

 Transvaal Republic. The lake is also informally known as "Matotoland" (meaning "land of frog

Frog

Frogs are amphibians in the order Anura , formerly referred to as Salientia . Most frogs are characterized by a short body, webbed digits , protruding eyes and the absence of a tail...

s") and its swazi name is "Kachibibi" (meaning "big lake").

A famous battle of the Anglo-Boer Wars was fought by Lake Chrissie on February 6, 1901.