Ndere Island
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| Waters | Lake Victoria | |
| Geographical location | 0 ° 12 '22 " S , 34 ° 30' 45" O | |
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| length | 3.6 km | |
| width | 2.2 km | |
| surface | 4.2 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Ndere Island is a Kenyan inland island in Winamgolf (formerly Kavirondo Gulf ) in the northeast of Lake Victoria , only 190 meters from the north shore of the lake and 26 km southwest of the city of Kisumu . The island became the Ndere Island National Reserve in November 1986 ; it has been uninhabited since then. In Luo, other means something like meeting place ; first settlers in the region who drove up the Nile use the island as a resting point.
Fish eagles , sailors , hippos and Nile crocodiles are native to the island .