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The Lake Erie Islands are a chain of archipelagic islands in Lake Erie. They include Kelleys Island, Erie Island, [1] Pelee Island, the Bass Islands, and several others. The majority of these islands are under the sovereignty of the State of Ohio in the United States. Pelee Island is the only major inhabited island within the province of ...
Lake Erie (42.2° N, 81.2W) has a mean elevation of 571 feet (174 m) [8] above sea level. It has a surface area of 9,990 square miles (25,874 km 2) [7] with a length of 241 statute miles (388 km; 209 nmi) [7] and breadth of 57 statute miles (92 km; 50 nmi) [7] at its widest points. It is the shallowest of the Great Lakes with an average depth ...
Whistler is located on British Columbia Highway 99, also known as the "Sea to Sky Highway", approximately 58 km (36 mi) north of Squamish, and 125 km (76 mi) from Vancouver. The highway connects Whistler to the British Columbia Interior via Pemberton - Mount Currie to Lillooet and connections beyond to the Trans-Canada and Cariboo Highways.
Erie might not be a surfer's Mecca like Huntington Beach, California, or North Shore, Hawaii, but the conditions on Lake Erie are good enough at times to entice surfers from throughout the area.
Seiche waves strike a shoreline structure in Buffalo, New York, in April 2018. (NYSDEC) People living on the east shore of Lake Erie may see the lake's water level rise into their yards and onto ...
Early Lake Erie was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed at the end of the last ice age approximately 13,000 years ago. The early Erie fed waters to Glacial Lake Iroquois . The ancient lake was similar in size to the current lake during glacial retreat, but for some period the eastern half of the lake was covered with ice.
The sun sets on Lake Erie as a beach concert winds down at Presque Isle State Park in Erie County. The sunsets, beaches and boating are three things that make Lake Erie popular in Pennsylvania.
Rattlesnake Island is an 85- acre (34 ha) island located on Lake Erie near Put-In-Bay, 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Port Clinton, Ohio. It is part of Put-in-Bay Township, in Ottawa County. It is one of several islands known as the Lake Erie Islands. The name Rattlesnake comes from the actual rattlesnakes that formerly inhabited the island ...