Did you know that Lake Malawi is referred to as The Lake of Stars? When British explorer David Livingstone first discovered the lake in 1859 he called it the Lake of Stars because of its glittering surface under the strong African sun.
He also named Cape Maclear, now a popular resort area in the Lake Malawi National Park, but this time not so poetically. Instead he named it after his friend Sir Thomas Maclear, Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope.
