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Bangweulu
[ bang-wee-oo-loo ]
noun
- a shallow lake and swamp in NE Zambia. About 150 miles (240 km) long.
Bangweulu
/ ˌbæŋwɪˈuːlʊ /
noun
- Lake Bangweulua shallow lake in NE Zambia, discovered by David Livingstone, who died there in 1873. Area: about 9850 sq km (3800 sq miles), including swamps
Example Sentences
Out on the Bangweulu flood plains of Zambia, where the swamps stretch all the way to the horizon in every direction, a reed basket used to be the primary fishing technology.
“It’s simple economics,” said Carl Huchzermeyer, a fisheries manager for African Parks, a conservation organization in Bangweulu.
The explorer died from malaria in a village near Lake Bangweulu in present-day Zambia.
The encounter was captured at Bangweulu wetlands, near Kasanka, in northern Zambia for the BBC One series Africa.
That was just a few days before his own wretched and lonely death, near the edge of the Bangweulu swamp in present-day Zambia.
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