Amazing Africa
Come visit the beautiful Africa
SAHARA DESERT
- largest desert in the world
- 3,500,000 Sq. miles
- sand dunes cover 15% of the desert
- AKA the stone desert
- bare rock or areas of course gravel cover 70% of the desert
Madagascar
- it is in the Indian ocean
- separated from the east African coast by the Mozambique channel
- 4 largest islands in the world
- economy is overwhelmingly agricultural
Mount Kilimanjaro
- highest mountain in Africa
- it is an extinct volcanoes
- rises in two peaks , Kibo(19,340 ft.) and Mawenzi(17,564ft.)
Lake Victoria
- largest lake in Africa and chief reservoir of the Nile river
- stretches between the eastern and western rift valley
- the most populated lake,with-in 50 miles of its shores live millions of people
- a fresh-water lake with a wealth of fish