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The United Lakes of America, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border. The five lakes are Superior , Michigan , Huron , Erie , and Ontario (though hydrologically, Michigan and Huron are a single body of water; they are joined by the Straits of ...
Paleo-Indian cultures were the earliest in North America, with a presence in the Great Plains and Great Lakes areas from about 12,000 BCE to around 8,000 BCE. [citation needed] Prior to European settlement, Iroquoian people lived around Lakes Erie and Ontario, [2] Algonquian peoples around most of the rest, and a variety of other indigenous nation-peoples including the Menominee, Ojibwa ...
I made this map during the winter of 2020-21 to keep busy during the pandemic. It is comprised of freely available geospatial data that I manipulated using GIS and graphical software. To decide which features to label, I consulted maps, atlases, and numerous online sites, including Peakbagger, PeakVisor, and Wikipedia.
USGS map colored by paleogeological areas and demarcating the sections of the U.S. physiographic regions: Laurentian Upland (area 1), Atlantic Plain (2-3), Appalachian Highlands (4-10), Interior Plains (11-13), Interior Highlands (14-15), Rocky Mountain System (16-19), Intermontane Plateaus (20-22), & Pacific Mountain System (23-25) The legend ...
The Discovery of North America (1972) R. C. West et al., Middle America: Its Lands and Peoples (3d ed. 1989) T. L. McKnight, Regional Geography of the United States and Canada (1992) S. Birdsall, Regional Landscapes of the United States and Canada (4th rev. ed. 1992) T. Flannery, The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and ...
Quebec, a portion of whose lands drain into the St. Lawrence Basin, is a signatory to the Great Lakes Charter of 1985, the 2001 Charter Annex, and the Agreements of 2005. [2] While not a part of the Great Lakes Basin, Quebec's position along the Saint Lawrence Seaway makes it a partner in water resource management with Ontario and the eight US ...
name = Great Lakes Name used in the default map caption; image = Great-Lakes.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 49 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 41.2 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = -92.2 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right = -75.5