Lake, northern Zambia.
Located southeast of Lake Tanganyika at an elevation of 3,740 ft (1,140 m), it is about 45 mi (72 km) long and, with its adjacent swamps, covers an area of 3,800 sq mi (9,840 sq km). Its outlet is the Luapul, a headstream of the Congo . It has three inhabited islands. {{link=Livingstone, David">David Livingstone , the first European to visit the lake, died there in 1873.