A ferry service links Bahir Dar with Gorgora via Dek Island and various lakeshore villages. They include the fourteenth-century Debre Maryam, and the eighteenth-century Narga Selassie, Tana Qirqos (said to have housed the Ark of the Covenant before it was moved to Axum), and Ura Kidane Mehret, known for its regalia. The monasteries are believed to have been built over earlier religious sites. Other important islands in Lake Tana include Dek, Mitraha, Gelila Zakarias, Halimun and Briguida. Emperors whose tombs are also on Daga include Dawit I, Zara Yaqob, Za Dengel, and Fasilides. Henze, on which he was told the Virgin Mary had rested on her journey back from Egypt he was also told that Frumentius, who introduced Christianity to Ethiopia, is "allegedly buried on Tana Cherqos." The body of Yekuno Amlak is interred in the monastery of St. On the island of Tana Qirqos is a rock shown to Paul B. Remains of ancient Ethiopian emperors and treasures of the Ethiopian Church are kept in the isolated island monasteries (including Kebran Gabriel, Ura Kidane Mehret, Narga Selassie, Daga Estifanos, Medhane Alem of Rema, Kota Maryam, and Mertola Maryam). A 20th-century geographer named 37 islands, of which he believed 19 have or had monasteries or churches on them. According to Manoel de Almeida (a Portuguese missionary in the early 17th century), there were 21 islands, seven to eight of which had monasteries on them "formerly large, but now much diminished." When James Bruce visited the area in 1771, he noted that the locals counted 45 inhabited islands, but stated he believed that "the number may be about eleven." Anton Stecker, in 1881, made a detailed examination of the lake, enabling substantially accurate maps, and counted 44 islands. It has fallen about 6 feet (1.8 m) in the last 400 years. Lake Tana has a number of islands, whose number varies depending on the level of the lake. The main tributaries to the lake are Gilgel Abbay (Little Nile River), and the Megech, Gumara, and Rib rivers. Seven large permanent rivers feed the lake as well as 40 small seasonal rivers. The lake was originally much larger than it is today. Lake Tana was formed by volcanic activity, blocking the course of inflowing rivers in the early Pleistocene epoch, about 5 million years ago. In 2015, the Lake Tana region was nominated as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve recognizing its national and international natural and cultural importance. This controls the flow to the Blue Nile Falls (Tis Abbai) and hydro-power station. The lake level has been regulated since the construction of the control weir where the lake discharges into the Blue Nile. Its surface area ranges from 3,000 to 3,500 square kilometres (1,200 to 1,400 square miles), depending on season and rainfall. Lake Tana is fed by the Gilgel Abay, Reb and Gumara rivers. Located in Amhara Region in the north-western Ethiopian Highlands, the lake is approximately 84 kilometres (52 miles) long and 66 kilometres (41 miles) wide, with a maximum depth of 15 metres (49 feet), and an elevation of 1,788 metres (5,866 feet). Lake Tana ( Amharic: ጣና ሐይቅ, romanized: T’ana ḥāyik’i previously Tsana ) is the largest lake in Ethiopia and the source of the Blue Nile. The most important are Tana Qirqos, Daga Island, Dek Island, and Mitraha Gilgel Abay, Kilti River, Magech River, Reb River, Gumara River
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