Boat on Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda.

Photography by Frank Schwellnus

The sun highlighting one of the many islands on Lake Bunyonyi.

© Dillon Marsh

Akampeine Island (aka Punishment Island) is a tiny one tree island in Lake Bunyonyi. It was once a place where unmarried pregnant woman were abandoned and left to die. Their only hope of rescue being, if a man too poor to afford the price of a bride, would claim one of them to be his wife.

© Dillon Marsh

Lake Bunyoni, Uganda, East Africa, Africa

by Andrew McConnell

Villagers in dugout canoes, Lake Bunyonyi, Kabale, Uganda, Africa.

Photography by Ariadne Van Zandbergen

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Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda

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Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda

A Child in a boat on Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda

Photography by youngrobv (Rob&Ale)

Lake Bunyonyi (“Place of many little birds”) lies in south western Uganda between Kisoro and Kabale close to the border with Rwanda.

The depth of the lake is rumored to vary between 44 m and 900 m, which if true would make the lake the second deepest in Africa.