Locat­ed at the south­ern end of the great expanse of Lake Malawi, with its deep, clear waters and moun­tain back­drop, the nation­al park is home to many hun­dreds of fish species, near­ly all endem­ic. Its impor­tance for the study of evo­lu­tion is com­pa­ra­ble to that of the finch­es of the Gala­pa­gos Islands.