Wondering about the origin of the word Turkana?
On 6 March 1888, the water body was initiated Lake Rudolf by Count Sámuel Teleki de Szék, a Hungarian, and his accomplice Lieutenant Ludwig Ritter Von Höhnel, an Austrian, to pay tribute to Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria. They were the main Europeans recorded to have visited the lake after a broad safari across East Africa. The lake held its European name during the pilgrim time of the British in East Africa. In 1975 after Kenya's freedom, the then president, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, renamed it after the Turkana, the pervasive clan.
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