Editing Lake Victoria (section)

== Bathymetry ==
[[File:Lake Vic Bathy.jpg|thumb|Lake Victoria [[bathymetric]] model<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal | title=Bathymetry TIFF, Lake Victoria Bathymetry, raster, 2016 – LakeVicFish Dataverse | doi=10.7910/dvn/soeknr| date=2018-05-17 | last1=Hamilton | first1=Stuart | last2=Munyaho | first2=Anthony Taabu | last3=Krach | first3=Noah | last4=Glaser | first4=Sarah |type = Data Set|journal = Harvard Dataverse}}</ref>]]

The lake is a shallow lake considering its large geographic area with a maximum depth of approximately {{convert|80|m|ft}} and an average depth of {{convert|40|m|ft}}.<ref>{{Cite journal | author = Hamilton, S.E. | date = 2016 | title = Creation of a Bathymetric Map of Lake Victoria, Africa | journal = Salisbury.edu | location = Salisbury, MD | publisher = Salisbury University | url = http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~sehamilton/LV_Bathy/ | access-date = 26 December 2024 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161025050539/http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~sehamilton/LV_Bathy/ | archive-date = 2016-10-25 | doi = 10.7910/DVN/SOEKNR}}</ref> A 2016 project digitized ten-thousand points and created the first true bathymetric map of the lake.<ref name=":0"/> The deepest part of the lake is offset to the east of the lake near Kenya and the lake is generally shallower in the west along the Ugandan shoreline and the south along the Tanzanian shoreline.<ref name=":0"/>