In Popular Culture
- The lake is featured in Fernando Meirelles's film The Constant Gardener, which is based on the book of the same name by John le Carré, although some of the footage was actually filmed at Lake Magadi.
- In his book A Lifetime with Lions, George Adamson describes various adventures along Lake Turkana.
- The travel writer John Hillaby describes a camel safari undertaken along the shore of the lake in his 1964 book Journey to the Jade Sea.
- Eyelids of the Morning: The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men by Alistair Graham and Peter Hill Beard, originally published in 1973
- In Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht, the Zohar is located in the lake.
- In Nobel laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel In Desert and Wilderness, the protagonists pass through the settlements on Lake Turkana and befriend the natives.
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