How deep is Lake Victoria?
Lake Victoria
between 80 and 84 metres (276ft)
Lake Victoria occupies a shallow depression in Africa. The lake has a maximum depth of between 80 and 84 metres (276ft)[12][9] and an average depth of 40 metres (130ft).[13] Its catchment area covers 169,858 square kilometres (65,583sqmi)[14]. The lake has a shoreline of 7,142 kilometres (4,438mi) when digitized at the 1:25,000 level,[15] with islands constituting 3.7 percent of this length,[16] and is divided among three countries: Kenya (6 percent or 4,100 square kilometres or 1,600 square miles), Uganda (45 percent or 31,000 square kilometres or 12,000 square miles), and Tanzania (49 percent or 33,700 square kilometres or 13,000 square miles).[17]