Lake Turkana
As you crawl forward in your 4x4, the so-called Jade Sea emerges before you. A vast, deep-green oasis in an otherwise barren hellscape. But this is not your storybook oasis.Photo: Doron, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Doron, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: alkaline lake on the border of Ethiopia and Kenya
- Also known as: “Aman”, “Aman Lake”, “Anam”, “Anam Lake”, “Bas”, “Bas Lake”, “Baso”, “Baso Lake”, “Basso”, “Basso Narok”, “Basso Norok”, “Fuchich”, “Galanabol”, “Galanaboy”, “Gallop”, “Gallop Lake”, “Gulanabol”, “Gullopp”, “Kenya and Ethiopia”, “Lago Rodolfo”, “Lake Rudolf”, “Rudolf Bahir”, “Rudolf Lake”, “Rudolph”, “Rudolph Lake”, “Turkana”, and “yeRudolf Bahir”
Photo: The Namwayas 1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Thomas Kujawa, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Central Island.
Central Island
Island
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Central Island, also known as Crocodile Island, is a volcanic island located in the middle of Lake Turkana in Kenya. It is also the location of Central Island National Park, which is governed by the Kenya Wildlife Service.
Lake Turkana
- Categories: salt lake, endorheic lake, and body of water
- Location: Northern Rift Valley, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Turkana” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Turkana-meer”
- Afrikaans: “Turkanameer”
- Amharic: “Rudolf Hāyk’”
- Arabic: “بحيرة توركانا”
- Armenian: “Ռուդոլֆ”
- Asturian: “Llagu Turkana”
- Azerbaijani: “Turkana gölü”
- Bashkir: “Рудольф”
- Basque: “Turkana lakua”
- Basque: “Turkana”
- Belarusian: “Рудольф”
- Belarusian: “Туркана”
- Bhojpuri: “तुर्काना झील”
- Breton: “Lenn Turkana”
- Bulgarian: “Рудолф”
- Bulgarian: “Туркана”
- Burmese: “တာကနကန်”
- Catalan: “llac Turkana”
- Catalan: “Llac Turkana”
- Catalan: “Turkana”
- Central Bikol: “Danaw Turkana”
- Chinese: “图尔卡纳湖”
- Chinese: “圖爾卡納湖”
- Chuvash: “Рудольф”
- Croatian: “Turkana”
- Czech: “Rudolfovo jezero”
- Czech: “Turkana”
- Danish: “Lake Rudolf”
- Danish: “Lake Turkana”
- Danish: “Turkanasøen”
- Dutch: “Rudolfmeer”
- Dutch: “Turkanameer”
- Esperanto: “Lago Turkana”
- Estonian: “Turkana järv”
- Fiji Hindi: “Lake Turkana”
- Fiji Hindi: “Turkana Talaab”
- Finnish: “Rudolfjärvi”
- Finnish: “Turkanajärvi”
- French: “Basso narok”
- French: “lac Rodolphe”
- French: “lac Rudolf”
- French: “lac Rudolphe”
- French: “lac Turkana”
- French: “Lac Turkana”
- French: “Mer de Jade”
- Galician: “Lago Turkana”
- Georgian: “ტურკანა”
- Georgian: “ტურკანის ტბა”
- German: “Lake Turkana”
- German: “Rudolf-see”
- German: “Turkana-See”
- German: “Turkanasee”
- German: “Rudolfsee” (historical)
- Greek: “Λίμνη Ροδόλφου”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Τουρκάνα”
- Greek: “Τουρκάνα”
- Hausa: “Tafkin Turkana”
- Hebrew: “אגם טורקאנה”
- Hebrew: “אגם טורקנה”
- Hebrew: “אגם רודולף”
- Hebrew: “ימת טורקאנה”
- Hebrew: “ימת טורקנה”
- Hebrew: “ימת רודולף”
- Hindi: “तुर्काना झील”
- Hungarian: “Jáde-tenger”
- Hungarian: “Rudolf-tó”
- Hungarian: “Turkana-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Turkana”
- Italian: “Lago Rodolfo” (historical)
- Italian: “Lago Rudolf”
- Italian: “lago Turkana”
- Italian: “Lago Turkana”
- Japanese: “トゥルカナ湖”
- Japanese: “ルドルフ湖”
- Kazakh: “Рудольф көлі”
- Kirghiz: “Рудольф, көл”
- Korean: “투르카나호”
- Latin: “Lacus Turkana”
- Latvian: “Rūdolfa ezers”
- Latvian: “Turkanas ezers”
- Latvian: “Turkānas ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Rudolfo ežeras”
- Lithuanian: “Turkana”
- Lithuanian: “Turkano ežeras”
- Lithuanian: “Turkanos ežeras”
- Luxembourgish: “Rudolfséi”
- Luxembourgish: “Turkanaséi”
- Macedonian: “Турканско Езеро”
- Malayalam: “ടർക്കാന തടാകം”
- Mazanderani: “تورکانا دریاچه”
- Mingrelian: “ტურკანა (ტობა)”
- Mingrelian: “ტურკანა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rudolfsjøen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Turkanasjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Turkanasjøen”
- Norwegian: “Turkanasjøen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Turkana”
- Panjabi: “ਤੁਰਕਾਨਾ ਝੀਲ”
- Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
- Persian: “دریاچه تورکانا”
- Persian: “دریاچهٔ تورکانا”
- Persian: “دریاچه رودلف”
- Persian: “دریاچهٔ رودلف”
- Polish: “Central Island National Park”
- Polish: “Jezioro Rudolfa”
- Polish: “Jezioro Turkana”
- Polish: “Lake Rudolf”
- Polish: “Lake Turkana National Parks”
- Polish: “Park Narodowy Central Island”
- Polish: “Park Narodowy Sibiloi”
- Polish: “Parki Narodowe Jeziora Turkana”
- Polish: “Rudolf Hajk”
- Polish: “Sibiloi National Park”
- Polish: “Turkana”
- Portuguese: “Lago Rodolfo”
- Portuguese: “Lago Turcana”
- Portuguese: “Lago Turkana”
- Portuguese: “Parques nacionais do lago turkana”
- Romanian: “Lacul Turkana”
- Russian: “Рудольф”
- Russian: “Туркана”
- Serbian: “Туркана”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Turkana”
- Slovak: “Rudolfovo jazero”
- Slovak: “Turkana”
- Slovenian: “Turkansko jezero”
- Spanish: “Lago Rodolfo”
- Spanish: “Lago Rudolf”
- Spanish: “Lago Turkana”
- Swahili: “Turkana”
- Swahili: “Ziwa la Turkana”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Turkana”
- Swedish: “Jadesjön”
- Swedish: “Lake Rudolf”
- Swedish: “Lake Turkana”
- Swedish: “Rudolfsjön”
- Swedish: “Turkanasjön”
- Tamil: “துர்க்கானா ஏரி”
- Tatar: “Рудольф (күл)”
- Tatar: “Рудольф”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบเทอร์กานา”
- Turkish: “Turkana Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Рудольф”
- Ukrainian: “Туркана”
- Urdu: “ٹرکانا جھیل”
- Urdu: “جھیل ٹرکانا”
- Urdu: “جھیل روڈلف”
- Urdu: “روڈلف جھیل”
- Venetian: “Lago Turkana”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Turkana”
- Waray (Philippines): “Danaw Turkana”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lake Turkana”
- Welsh: “Llyn Turkana”
- Western Panjabi: “جھیل ترکانا”
- Western Panjabi: “جھیل ترکانہ”
- Wu Chinese: “图尔卡纳湖”
- Yue Chinese: “圖爾卡納湖”
- “तुर्काना झील”
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