| Welcome Home - Video Akosombo Port - Base for fright vessels and a regular ferry (Yapei Queen) to and from Northern Ghana and Brong Ahafo region, and Volta region, via Lake Volta. Akosombo Hafen - Heimathafen fuer Frachtschiffe und eine Faehrverbindung (Yapai Queen) nach und von Nordghana und die Brong Ahaforegion, ueber den Voltasee. On top of the hill at Akosombo dam; Kwame Nkrumahs bungalow, overseeing the Volta dam project. Tthe hill is part of Volta region. The Akosombo dam is like a "border" between Volta region and Eastern region of Ghana. Lake Volta is the largest reservoir by surface area in the world, and the fourth largest one by water volume. It is located completely within the country of Ghana, and it has a surface area of about 8,502 km² (3,275 square miles). Lake Volta lies along the Greenwich Meridian, and just six degrees of latitude north of the Equator. The lake's northmost point is close to the town of Yapei, and its southmost extreme is at the Akosombo Dam, 520 kilometers downstream from Yapei. Akosombo Dam holds back both the White Volta River and the Black Volta River, which formerly converged, where the middle of the reservoir now lies, to form the single Volta River. The present Volta River flows from the outlets of the dam's powerhouse and spillways to the Atlantic Ocean in southmost Ghana. Wikipedia® Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details.
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