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Granite Island home page (including webcams and virtual tour). Interactive map on Michigan lighthouses, with excellent photographs by Scott Holman, Detroit News. Interactive map of lighthouses in area ("Central" Lake Superior). Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light, Granite Island Light. Marquette country on Granite Island light.
The regulating structure is known as the Compensating Works and is operated according to a regulation plan known as Plan 1977-A. Water levels, including diversions of water from the Hudson Bay watershed, are regulated by the International Lake Superior Board of Control, which was established in 1914 by the International Joint Commission.
Granite Island is a 2.5-acre (1.0 ha) island in Lake Superior located about 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Marquette in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. Built upon it is the Granite Island Lighthouse , also known as Granite Island Light Station, [ 1 ] "one of the oldest surviving lighthouses on Lake Superior". [ 2 ]
The waterway connects to Lake Superior at its north and south entries (upper and lower portage entry lighthouses), with sections known as Portage Lake and Torch Lake in between. The primary tributary to Portage Lake is the Sturgeon River. The Keweenaw Waterway in winter, looking west toward the Portage Lake Lift Bridge.
The Stannard Rock Reef is located off Keweenaw Peninsula about 24 miles (39 km) south of Manitou Island and 44 miles (71 km) north of Marquette, Michigan. [1] [10] In 1835, Captain Charles C. Stannard of the vessel John Jacob Astor first discovered this underwater mountain that extends for 0.25 miles (0.40 km) with depths as shallow as 4 feet (1.2 m) and averaging 16 feet (4.9 m).
(The Center Square) – Bayfield’s Kristle KLR will no longer be able to bottle water from a well near Lake Superior after the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided to not take up its case. The ...
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The Point is a popular place for rock collectors, ship watchers, and bird watching. Whitefish Point's land and water provides a natural corridor for birds that makes it a migratory route of world significance. [3] It is a designated Important Bird Area [4] where the Whitefish Point Bird Observatory [5] conducts important research.