Meaning of kirta | Babel Free

Definitions

A floating island on Lake Chad.

Examples

“The kirtas were very numerous … until 1967 … These islands disappeared fairly quickly when the average level of the lake decreased below 282 m.”

“From up there [satellites], the immense masses of vegetation that you see seem like solid ground, but instead they are all kirta, the floating islands.”

“... kirtas or floating islands of aquatic vegetation, usually of Papyrus or Phragmites, but also sometimes of Vossia cuspidata, which can break free from vegetation fringing islands in Lake Chad […]”

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