Maboko Island
Maboko Island is a small island lying in the Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria, in Nyanza Province of western Kenya. It is about 1.8 km long by 1 km wide. It is an important Middle Miocene paleontological site with fossiliferous deposits that were discovered in the 1930s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Kenya
- Also known as: “Karonga”, “Karongo Island”, “Karungu Island”, and “Kiboko Island”
Maboko Island
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Kisumu County, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-0.16476° or 0° 9′ 53″ southLongitude
34.60981° or 34° 36′ 35″ eastElevation
1,140 metres (3,740 feet)Open location code
6GFPRJP5+3WOpenStreetMap ID
way 7427894OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Maboko Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مابوكو”
- Armenian: “Մաբոկո”
- Bulgarian: “Мабоко”
- Cebuano: “Kiboko Island”
- Dutch: “Maboko”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Maboko”
- French: “Maboko”
- Japanese: “マボコ島”
- Russian: “Каронго”
- Russian: “Кибоко”
- Russian: “Мабоко”
- Spanish: “Isla Maboko”
- Swedish: “Kiboko Island”
- Turkish: “Maboko Adası”
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