Lake Albert is part of the complicated system of the upper Nile.

They finally reached the fort of Fashoda on the upper Nile on July 10, 1898 and hoisted the French flag.

Six members of the Gordon Memorial Sudan Mission arrived at Mongalla on the upper Nile in January 1906.

In 1869, the khedive sent a force under British explorer Samuel Baker to establish dominion over the upper Nile.

Baker formally annexed the region around the upper Nile for the Khedive of Egypt in 1871.

Seheil is a small island in the upper Nile in the Aswan region of ancient Nubia, in present day Egypt.

He was also aware that on the upper Nile, and to the south of it, French and British political interests were on the point of contact.

The ancient Egyptians on the upper Nile knew only that their river originated far to the south, in a region they called the Land of Trees.

The upper Nile receives its chief supplies from the mountainous region adjoining the Central African trough in the neighbourhood of the equator.

Others suggest that the tribes left the grasslands on the upper Nile because of environmental degradation accompanying the Medieval Warm Period.