HANNINGTON  , a

lake of British East Africa in the eastern rift-valley just south of the equator and in the shadow of the Laikipia escarpment . It is 7 M. long by 2 M. broad . The water is shallow and brackish . Standing in the lake and along its shores are numbers of dead trees, the remains of an ancient forest, which serve as eyries for storks, herons and eagles . The banks and flats at the north end of the lake are the resort of hundreds of thousands of flamingoes . The places where they cluster are dazzling white with guano deposits . The lake is named after Bishop James Hannington .