Lake Kyle lies in south eastern Rhodesia. It is thought to have been named after Kyle Farm which occupied most of the land required for the lake, which in turn was named after the Kyle district in Scotland from which the pioneer of the Lowveld, Tom Murray MacDougall came originally.
The lake was created in 1960 with the construction of the Kyle Dam on the Mutirikwi River. The dam was built by Concor to provide water to the farming estates on the lowveld to the southwest, around the town of Triangle, where the main crop has been sugar cane.
It cost £3 million and was opened by Sir Edgar Whitehead, former Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, on 31 May 1961. The newly- created Lake Kyle covers about 23,000 acres.
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1964 Definitive Series – 2s Lake Kyle
