Kande Island
KAHN-deh EYE-land (approx.)
The atlas records 19 collection-point forms from Kande Island, across 13 genera.
11.9564°S 34.1269°E
Kande Island is an island off Lake Malawi's Malawian shore, lying under 1 km south-east of Kande Beach.
Where it is
Kande Island is on the western shore of Lake Malawi, in its central third (171 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Bandawe Point 4.3 mi north-east · Makuzi Beach 4.3 mi north-east · Tukombo 11 mi south-west
Shore, third and distances are measured from the coordinates above against the lake’s mapped outline.
The water
Lake-wide measured chemistry of Lake Malawi — collection points share their lake's water; site-specific figures are shown only where the literature records them.
Nearest measured station: Salima (south-east shore) (~202 km) — Conductivity 235 µS/cm
Surface temperature here
Across Apr–Nov, monthly means run 75 °F to 82 °F — coolest in Jul. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (958 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.
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.
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.