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Lake Abaya
Lake Abaya
Lake Abaya is a lake in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region of Ethiopia. It was named Lake Margherita by the Italian explorer Vittorio Bottego, the first European commonly thought to visit the lake, to honor the wife of king Umberto I of Italy, Queen Margherita...

 

  • Aghise Island
  • Alge Island
  • Aruro Island
    Aruro Island
    Aruro is the biggest island in Lake Abaya, which is in Ethiopia. The island has a latitude and longitude of . Aruro is administratively part of Boreda Abaya, a woreda of the Gamo Gofa Zone....

  • Darato Island
  • Gatame Island
  • Gidicho Island
  • Ugayo Island

Lake Tana
Lake Tana
Lake Tana is the source of the Blue Nile and is the largest lake in Ethiopia...

 

  • Daga Island
    Daga Island
    Daga Island is located in the southeastern part of Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Southeast of the much larger Dek Island, Daga has a latitude and longitude of...

  • Dek Island
    Dek Island
    Dek Island is the biggest island on Lake Tana in Ethiopia. It is administratively included in the Bahir Dar Zuria woreda of the Mirab Gojjam Zone. To the southeast of Dek is the much smaller Daga Island.- Overview :It is home to several monasteries, the best known being Narga Selassie...

  • Gelila Zakarias
    Gelila Zakarias
    Gelila Zakarias is an island in the northwestern part of Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Located southwest of the Gorgora peninsula, Daga has a latitude and longitude of . The island is a circular, forested cone with the monastery church of Iyasus at the peak. When R.E...

  • Kebran Island
  • Mitraha Island
    Mitraha Island
    Mitraha Island is located in the northeastern part of Lake Tana in Ethiopia, about a mile from the lake's shore, and has a latitude and longitude of . The island contains the ruins of a number of churches. The first church built on the island, by the Ethiopian Emperor Dawit I was burnt by Imam...

  • Rema Island
    Rema Island
    Rema Island is located in the southeastern part of Lake Tana in Ethiopia, and has a latitude and longitude of . The island is the location of the church of Medhane Alem where the Emperor Sarsa Dengel is interred. When R.E. Cheesman visited the church in March 1933, he found some paintings which he...

  • Tana Qirqos

Lake Zway
Lake Zway
Lake Zway or Lake Ziway is one of the freshwater Rift Valley lakes of Ethiopia. It is located about 60 miles south of Addis Ababa, on the border between the Regions of Oromia and of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples; the woredas holding the lake's shoreline are Adami Tullu and Jido...

 

  • Bird Island
  • Debre Sina
  • Funduro
  • Galila
  • Tadecha
  • Tullu Gudo
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