Namalenje Island
nah-mah-LEHN-jeh EYE-land (approx.)
The atlas records 20 collection-point forms from Namalenje Island, across 14 genera.
13.7306°S 34.6408°E
Namalenje Island is an island in Lake Malawi's Malawian waters, about 3 km north-east of Senga Bay.
Where it is
Namalenje Island is on the western shore of Lake Malawi, in its southern third (294 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Senga Point 1.4 mi north-west · Senga Bay 2.1 mi south-west · Leopard Bay 2.7 mi north-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) (~26 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 (1344 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.
The site
A site photograph shows the island as seen from Senga Bay.
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.