Fort Ternan is a small town in Nyando District, Nyanza Province, Kenya located 50 kilometres east of Kisumu and five kilometres east of Koru. Fort Ternan is located adjacent the western border of Rift Valley Province [1]. Fort Ternan forms a ward of Muhoroni Constituency and Muhoroni town council [2]. Fort Ternan is also a location in the Muhoroni division of Nyando District [3].
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It is served by a railway station on the branchline to Kisumu on the national railway system. The railway is heavily graded in the vicinity of this station.
Fossils of the specimen Kenyapithecus were first found by Louis Leakey in Fort Ternan in 1962