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Rusinga Island fossil sites

View on map:0.400000°S 34.167000°E

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Louis and Mary Leakey worked on the sites in the late 1940s and discovered Proconsul primate specimens.  The precise locations of their digs need to be found.

Description


Rusinga Island

Rusinga Island, with an elongated shape approximately 10 miles (16 km) from end to end and 3 miles (5 km) at its widest point, lies in the eastern part of Lake Victoria at the mouth of the Winam Gulf. Part of Kenya, it is linked to Mbita Point on the mainland by a causeway.

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