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  2. Sturgeon Bay - Wikipedia

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    Sturgeon Bay is an arm of Green Bay extending southeastward approximately 10 miles into the Door Peninsula at the city of Sturgeon Bay, located approximately halfway up the Door Peninsula. [ 1] The bay is connected to Lake Michigan by the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal. The Potawatomi name for Sturgeon Bay is "Na-ma-we-qui-tong".

  3. Geography of Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    A general map of Wisconsin. Wisconsin, a state in the Midwestern United States, has a vast and diverse geography famous for its landforms created by glaciers during the Wisconsin glaciation 17,000 years ago. The state can be generally divided into five geographic regions—Lake Superior Lowland, Northern Highland, Central Plain, Eastern Ridges ...

  4. History of taxidermy - Wikipedia

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    History of taxidermy. Taxidermy, or the process of preserving animal skin together with its feathers, fur, or scales, is an art whose existence has been short compared to forms such as painting, sculpture, and music. The word derives from two Greek words: taxis, meaning order, preparation, and arrangement and derma, meaning skin.

  5. Burbot - Wikipedia

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    Burbot. The burbot (Lota lota), also known as bubbot, [2] mariah, [3] loche, cusk, [4] freshwater cod, [5] freshwater ling, freshwater cusk, the lawyer, coney-fish, lingcod, [6] or eelpout, is a species of coldwater ray-finned fish native to the subarctic regions of the Northern hemisphere. It is the only member of the genus Lota, and is the ...

  6. Turtle-Flambeau Flowage - Wikipedia

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    The Turtle-Flambeau Flowage is a 12,942 acres (52.37 km 2) lake in Iron County, Wisconsin. [1] It has a maximum depth of 15 meters and is the seventh largest lake in the state of Wisconsin by surface area. The flowage is home to unique wetland patterns and plant species as well as several species of sport and game fish, including musky, panfish ...

  7. Fish Creek, Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    UTC-5 (CDT) ZIP code. 54212 [1] Area code. 920. GNIS feature ID. 1564983. Fish Creek is an unincorporated community located in Door County, Wisconsin, United States, within the town of Gibraltar. [2] It is located on Highway 42 along Green Bay. [3][4]

  8. Fish Island (Wisconsin) - Wikipedia

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    Population. Uninhabited. Fish Island is an island on the western shore of Lake Michigan in the eastern part of the town of Washington in Door County, Wisconsin. [1] It is two miles (3.2 km) southeast of Rock Island and is under the administration of the U.S. Government. It was named Fish Island because of the abundance of trout in the area.

  9. Tainter Lake - Wikipedia

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    Tainter Lake is a small reservoir in north central Dunn County, Wisconsin, on the Red Cedar River at its confluence with the Hay River. The lake was created by a hydroelectric dam (about 3 miles (5 km) downstream on the Red Cedar at Cedar Falls. The lake, a popular resort and fishing spot, has a surface area of approximately 2 square miles (5 ...