A lake on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, unusual among large lakes for holding vast quantities of dissolved methane and carbon dioxide trapped in its depths. This buildup poses a rare natural hazard while also being tapped as a source of extractable gas.
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area = 2700 km2
Shaped By: Continental Rifting, Lead paragraph
It lies on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, and is in the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift.
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