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The Keweenaw Waterway is a partly natural, partly artificial waterway which cuts across the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan; it separates Copper Island from the mainland. Parts of the waterway are variously known as the Keweenaw Waterway, Portage Canal , Portage Lake Canal , Portage River , Lily Pond , Torch Lake , and Portage Lake .
The Portage Lake Lift Bridge (officially the Houghton–Hancock Bridge [3]) connects the cities of Hancock and Houghton, in the US state of Michigan.It crosses Portage Lake, a portion of the waterway which cuts across the Keweenaw Peninsula with a canal linking the final several miles to Lake Superior to the northwest.
The Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light is located at the offshore end of a breakwater extending southward from shore at the mouth of the Portage River. The structure consists of a timber crib foundation and concrete pier, on top of which is a single story concrete machine room, topped with a three-story octagonal steel tower with a circular ...
The peninsula is bisected by the Keweenaw Waterway, a partly natural, partly artificial waterway serving as a canal. The north side of the canal is known locally as Copper Island . The cities of Houghton , the peninsula's largest population center, and Hancock , are located along the shores of the Keweenaw Waterway.
The Keweenaw Waterway Upper Entrance Light is a lighthouse located at the north end of the Portage River in McLain State Park in Hancock Township, Michigan. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
Copper Island is a local name given to the northern part of the Keweenaw Peninsula (projecting northeastward into Lake Superior at the western end of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States of America), separated from the rest of the Keweenaw Peninsula by Portage Lake and the Keweenaw Waterway. [1] [2]
Eagle Harbor Light is an operational lighthouse at Eagle Harbor, in Keweenaw County in the state of Michigan. [2] [3] It sits on the rocky entrance to Eagle Harbor and is one of several light stations that guide mariners on Lake Superior across the northern edge of the Keweenaw Peninsula.
Keweenaw County (/ ˈ k iː w ə n ɔː /, KEE-wə-naw) is a county in the western Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census , the county's population was 2,046, making it Michigan's least populous county. [ 3 ]