Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Jakobsen's Beach

YAH-kob-senz BEECH (approx.)

The atlas records 31 collection-point forms from Jakobsen's Beach, across 18 genera.

4.9100°S 29.5900°E

Jakobsen's Beach is a collection point on Tanzania's Lake Tanganyika shore, about 1 km southwest of Mawimbi and near Cape Bangwe.

Where it is

Jakobsen's Beach is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its northern third (109 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Mawimbi 0.5 mi north-east · Cape Bangwe, Mawimbi 0.5 mi north-east · Mzungu Beach 1.3 mi south-east

Shore, third and distances are measured from the coordinates above against the lake’s mapped outline.

The water

Lake-wide measured chemistry of Lake Tanganyika — collection points share their lake's water; site-specific figures are shown only where the literature records them.

Temperature77–80.6 °F25–27 °C

pH8.6–9.2alkaline

Hardnesshard · 600–690 µS/cm

Nearest measured station: Kigoma (central, east shore) (~6 km) — Temperature 25.7 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 654 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 12.8 m

Surface temperature here

Across May–Oct, monthly means run 78 °F to 80 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (653 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

Surface temperature by month near Jakobsen's Beach — dot = mean, bar = typical range (10th–90th percentile), “–” = too cloudy to measure.

Temperature: ESA Climate Change Initiative, Lakes_cci v3.0 (Asfour et al. 2026; doi:10.5285/a56dba09df8a42ec9fba8b8c7a5e1f69). Chemistry on this page remains the lake's own.

Sources

tanganyika.si — Lake Tanganyika interactive locations map: Jakobsen's Beach

Each entry below is the population of that species recorded here — the form aquarists keep and breed as a distinct, provenance-labelled line. Crossing forms from different collection points is considered hybridisation in the hobby.