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Mouth of the Lunangwa River

Label affixed: "Mouth of the Lunangwa River on the western Tanganyika coast, Congo State. The estuary with its steeply rising valley edges of up to 175 metres makes a fjord-like impression. The length of the estuary from the edge of the lake to the Alluvion is about 2 kilometres. The centre of the valley was plumbed at about 1 km; no bottom was reached at a depth of 170 m. It can therefore be assumed that the valley was formed by a transverse fracture. The edges of the valley consist of mottled quartz porphyry. The alluvion protrudes about 3 metres above the water and drops steeply to the east under water, so that anchoring the steamer was very difficult."

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
positives (photographs)
Dimensions
Bildformat (Foto): 8 x 11 cm
Kartonformat (Foto): 31 x 25 cm
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
BGAEU 301

Provenance and sources

when
25 April 1911
where
Lake Tanganyika
Lunangwa [Fluss]
who
Friedrich Tornau (1877-01-11 - 1914-11-14)

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