Lake Victoria (Nam Lolwe in Luo; `Nalubaale` in Luganda; Victoria Nyanza in Bantu ) is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was named after Queen Victoria by the explorer John Hanning Speke, who was the first European to discover it. Speke accomplished this in 1858, while on an expedition with Richard Francis Burton to locate the source of t..... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Victoria