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The deepest point taken from the GLERL website is marked with "×". It's position differs slightly from the position of the area below -400 m in this bathymetric map based on data cited below. According to NGDC information, Lake Superior data are incomplete. The map was created using the Generic Mapping Tools, GMT, version 5.1.1.
Lake Superior's deepest point [4] on the bathymetric map. [1] Lake Superior has a surface area of 31,700 square miles (82,103 km 2), [7] which is approximately the size of South Carolina or Austria. It has a maximum length of 350 statute miles (560 km; 300 nmi) and maximum breadth of 160 statute miles (257 km; 139 nmi). [8]
Watersheds [1] of Minnesota. Minnesota has 6,564 natural rivers and streams that cumulatively flow for 69,000 miles (111,000 km). The Mississippi River begins its journey from its headwaters at Lake Itasca and crosses the Iowa border 680 mi (1,094 km) downstream.
The Minnesota portion of Lake Superior is the largest at 962,700 acres (3,896 km 2) and deepest (at 1,290 ft (390 m), 393 m) body of water in the state. [11] Minnesota has 6,564 natural rivers and streams that cumulatively flow for 69,000 miles (111,000 km). [ 11 ]
[5] [8] The spawning and schooling waters of deep coldwater fish, such as whitefish, lake herring, walleye, and lake trout will be protected by this zone. [8] [9] Caribou foraging and calving areas are located on shore. [6] [9] Lake Superior is home to about 70 fish species. [10]
The current all-tackle world record for a walleye is held by Mabry Harper, who caught an 11.34-kg (25-lb) walleye in Old Hickory Lake in Tennessee on 2 August 1960. [24] LeRoy Chiovitte holds the Minnesota state-record walleye he caught on May 13, 1979 on the Seagull River near Saganaga Lake.
The Department of Natural Resources will tighten fishing regulations on Lake Mille Lacs this year in response to a downturn in the lake's walleye population. DNR fisheries biologists presented the ...
It flows into the lake in eastern Duluth. Lester River is known as Basaabikaa-ziibi in Ojibwe , meaning ' Rocky Canyon River ' , though Joseph Gilfillan translated its name as ' River that comes through a worn hollow place in the rock ' , as the river passes through a canyon between Lester Park, where Amity Creek joins the Lester River, and the ...