digital photograph(colour)
- Museum number
- 2013,2034.14221
- Description
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Digital photograph (colour); aerial view from of a helicopter flying over black lava flows at the southern end of Lake Turkana; the photographer (David Coulson’s) feet and the helicopter cockpit visible in the foreground. Lake Turkana, Kenya.
Scanned
- Production date
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20 March 2006 (date digitized)
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July 2002 (original photograph)
- Dimensions
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File size: 233 megabytes
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Resolution: 300 dots per inch
- Curator's comments
- The Turkana Basin covers about 131,000km² in Northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia and forms part of the Eastern (Gregory) Rift Valley. At its centre is the long Lake Turkana (formerly Lake Rudolf) and the area is renowned in Palaeontology due to the richness of early hominid finds there.
The area is rich in engraved rock art sites, notably at the Namoratung’a sites South-West of the lake and various sites to the East of the lake in neighbouring Marsabit County.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2013
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2013,2034.14221
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: KENTURNAS0001 (TARA number)
