Turkana

[ toor-kah-nuh ]

noun

, plural Tur·ka·nas, (especially collectively) Tur·ka·na

1. a member of a seminomadic people of northwestern Kenya and bordering areas of Uganda.
2. the Nilotic language of the Turkana.
3. Lake. Formerly Rudolf. a lake in E Africa, in NE Kenya. 185 miles (298 km) long; 3,500 sq. mi. (9,100 sq. km).

Turkana

/ tɜːˈkɑːnə /

noun

1. Lake Turkana
   a long narrow lake in E Africa, in the Great Rift Valley. Area: 7104 sq km (2743 sq miles) Former nameLake Rudolf

Example Sentences

One is known from a strange crushed skull dating to 3.5 million years ago, which Leakey’s team found at Lomekwi on the west side of Lake Turkana in 1999.

From Science Magazine

In 1994, Kenyan paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey and her team found more than 80 fossils of teeth, jaws, a partial arm, and shinbone at two sites near Lake Turkana in Kenya.

From Science Magazine

Shortly before midnight Saturday, Kenya Power offered the first detailed explanation of the outage, blaming it on a loss of power generation from the Lake Turkana Wind Power plant, Africa’s largest wind farm, causing an imbalance that “tripped all other main generation units and stations, leading to a total outage on the grid.”

From Seattle Times

But Lake Turkana Wind Power in a statement denied it was to blame.

From Seattle Times

Dr. Pobiner’s bone fragment specimen was retrieved by Mary Leakey, a British paleoanthropologist, in the remote desert badlands just east of Lake Turkana, then called Lake Rudolf, without an archaeological context of the fauna that was observed at the time of discovery.

From New York Times