Milima Island
mee-LEE-mah EYE-land (approx.)
The atlas records 12 collection-point forms from Milima Island, across 9 genera.
5.6910°S 29.3909°E
Milima Island is an island on the Democratic Republic of Congo's Lake Tanganyika shore, about 2 km south-east of Maganze Bay.
Where it is
Milima Island is in open water about 3.1 mi off the western shore, in the central third of Lake Tanganyika (163 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Kibige Island 2.1 mi south-east · Bilila (Kavala) Island 2.9 mi north-east · Mtotokainda Island 2.9 mi north
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.
Nearest measured station: Kigoma (central, east shore) (~94 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 77 °F to 80 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (764 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.