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By surface area, Lake Huron is the second-largest of the Great Lakes, with a surface area of 23,007 square miles (59,590 km 2)—of which 9,103 square miles (23,580 km 2) lies in Michigan and 13,904 square miles (36,010 km 2) lies in Ontario—making it the third-largest fresh water lake on Earth (or the fourth-largest lake, if the Caspian Sea ...
Combined, Lake Michigan–Huron is the largest freshwater lake by area in the world. [1] [3] [4] [5] Lake Superior is larger than either individually, so it is counted as the largest of the Great Lakes when Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are considered separately.
Huron County is at the northern tip of the Thumb, which is a sub region of Mid Michigan. It is a peninsula, bordered by Saginaw Bay to the west and Lake Huron to the north and east, and has over 90 miles (140 km) of shoreline, from White Rock on Lake Huron to Sebewaing on the Saginaw Bay. Huron County's most prominent industry is agriculture ...
The 1996 Lake Huron cyclone, commonly referred to as Hurricane Huron and Hurroncane, [1] [2] was an extremely rare, strong cyclonic storm system that developed over Lake Huron in September 1996. The system resembled a subtropical cyclone at its peak, bearing some characteristics of a tropical cyclone . [ 3 ]
Lake Huron is the second largest of the Great Lakes (after Lake Superior). With a surface area of 23,010 mi² (59,596 km²), it ranks as the third largest fresh water lake in the world. Michigan is the only U.S. state to border Lake Huron, while the portion of the lake on the other side of the international border belongs to the Canadian ...
Lakes Huron and Michigan are sometimes considered a single lake, called Lake Michigan–Huron, because they are one hydrological body of water connected by the Straits of Mackinac. [19] The straits are five miles (8 km) wide [ 14 ] and 120 feet (37 m) deep; the water levels rise and fall together, [ 20 ] and the flow between Michigan and Huron ...
HMCS Huron (DDG 281), an Iroquois-class destroyer active from 1972 to 2005; United States lightship Huron (LV-103), a lightvessel launched in 1920 and now a museum ship moored in Pine Grove Park; USS Huron (1861), a gunboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War; USS Huron (1875), an iron sloop-rigged screw steam gunboat
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