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Mageta Island is an island in Kenya on Lake Victoria.[1]

It is located in the administrative area of Siaya County in the western part of the country, about 470 km west of the capital Nairobi. Tropical rainforest climate prevails in the area.[2]

The average annual temperature on the island is 20°C. The warmest month is March, when the average temperature is 23°C, and the coldest is June, with 19°C.[3] The average annual rainfall is 2 625 millimeters. The driest month is April, with 316 mm of precipitation on average , and the driest is February, with 100 mm of rainfall.[4]

Mageta Island is one of the reference points used to differentiate the border between Kenya and Uganda.[5]

As of March 2016, it was considered that no driven vehicle had been to Mageta Island and that there are no roads there. The island was thought to have been used as a detention camp for those arrested during the Mau Mau uprising. The late Waruru Kanja, a future MP for the Nyeri Town Constituency, was one of those thought to have been incarcerated there.[6]

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