Ilemba Island is an island in
Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. With a surface area of approximately , Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, and the world's second-largest fresh water lake by surface area after ...
. Administratively it belongs to
Kenya. It is part of the
Homa Bay County, in the western part of the country, 300 km west of the capital
Nairobi.
Tropical monsoon climate prevails in the area. The average annual temperature in the island is 21 °C. The warmest month is March, when the average temperature is 24 °C, and the coldest is May, with 18 °C average. The average annual rainfall is 1,383 millimeters. The driest month is April, with 224 mm of precipitation on average, and the driest is July, with 34 mm of precipitation.
Ilemba Island is one of the reference points used to differentiate the border between Kenya and
Uganda.
References
Islands of Lake Victoria
Lake islands of Kenya
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