The land
The longest river on Earth begins here.
The Nile, the Mountains of the Moon, and snow on the equator.
The source of the Nile
Longer than Canada is wide.
At Jinja the Nile slips out of Lake Victoria and runs 6,650 km to the sea, farther than Canada is wide from coast to coast. The lake it leaves is the second largest body of fresh water on the planet, after Lake Superior.
The Mountains of the Moon
A 2,000-year-old name, still on the map.
To the west rise the Rwenzori. The geographer Ptolemy named them the Mountains of the Moon 2,000 years ago, believing their snow fed the Nile. The snow is still there, on the equator, while Ottawa’s melts off every spring.
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