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Lake Nasser forms together with Lake Nubia, the southern part of the huge reservoir, one of the greatest man-made lakes in Africa. This artificial impoundment on the Nile River when full, will extend from the High Dam (HD) at Aswan (Egypt) till the Dal Cataract (Sudan) between the 23°58′ and 20°27′ north latitude and 30°35′ and 33°15′ east longitude. Construction started in 1960, filling in 1964. (Map, fig. 71).
All original data pertaining to Lake Nasser and Lake Nubia were obtained by me as Project Manager — Fishery Limnologist at the FAO/UNDP/SF Lake Nasser Development Centre Project. I am indebted to express my deepest gratitude to the Government of Egypt, especially to the Regional Planning of Aswan and personally to H. E. M. Alwany Governor of Aswan, Mr M. Marei General Director of RPA and Dr. A. F. A. Latif Project Co-Manager, Director of the Lake Nasser Centre of RPA and last but not least to all my colleagues and friends whoser eadiness and permanent help made this work possible.
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Entz, B. (1976). Lake Nasser and Lake Nubia. In: Rzóska, J. (eds) The Nile, Biology of an Ancient River. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1563-9_30
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