It was once a lake port.
This ore could be excavated very cheaply by means of improved mining facilities, and transported at low cost to lake ports.
Landlocked members with lake ports: Burundi and Rwanda.
However, the lake port of Bukoba is reachable only along improved gravel roads.
Ulthor was the lake port in the north; Grefftscharr was the kingdom around the Great Lakes.
Sackets Harbor was an important lake port through most of the 19th century.
It has the second largest lake port in the country after Västerås.
A new, not-yet-named hotel is going up now east of the lake port.
From the old town near the lake port it is a 10-minute walk up to the town's castle and twin-towered Collegiate Church.
In Roman times, under the name of Angleria, it was an important lake port and road station.