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As he leaves Oak Island, Marty Lagina calls Kevin Dykstra, a Michigan treasure hunter and arranges a meeting at Marty's vineyard in Traverse City, Michigan where Kevin and his colleagues, Brad Richards and Fred Monroe, present their evidence that US$2 million in gold lies in a boxcar at the bottom of Lake Michigan. The gold had originally been ...
Due to environmental contamination, a portion of the river was designated a Great Lakes Area of Concern (AOC) under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1987. The designated site includes the lowermost 1.7-mile (2.7 km) portion of the Manistique River downstream of a dam in the city of Manistique, as well as the Manistique harbor at the mouth of the river on Lake Michigan.
Lake Michigan (/ ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ ɡ ən / ⓘ MISH-ig-ən) is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume [5] (1,180 cu mi; 4,900 km 3) and depth (923 ft; 281 m) after Lake Superior and the third-largest by surface area (22,405 sq mi; 58,030 km 2), after Lake Superior and Lake Huron.
Warren Dunes State Park is a 1,500-acre (610 ha) public recreation area located along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan in Berrien County, Michigan. [2] The state park's large sand dunes and lakeshore beaches make it one of the most popular of Michigan's state parks with an average of about one million visitors annually.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a U.S. national lakeshore in the northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.Located within Benzie and Leelanau counties, the park extends along a 35-mile (56 km) stretch of Lake Michigan's eastern coastline, as well as North and South Manitou islands, preserving a total of 71,199 acres (111 sq mi; 288 km 2).
High Island is an island in Lake Michigan and is part of the Beaver Island archipelago. It is 3,495 acres (14.14 km 2) in size.The island is owned by the U.S. state of Michigan and is managed by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources as part of the Beaver Islands State Wildlife Research Area.
A NOAA schematic of the hydrology of the Great Lakes depicts Lake Michigan–Huron as a single lake with three basins: Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and Georgian Bay. [4] The connection between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron through the Straits of Mackinac is 5 miles (8 km) wide [11] and 120 feet (37 m) deep. [12]
The Manistee River (/ m æ n ɪ s t i / man-iss-TEE, seldom referred to as the Big Manistee River) is a 190-mile-long (310 km) [2] river in the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The river rises in the Northern Lower Peninsula, and flows in a generally southwesterly direction to its mouth at Lake Michigan at the eponymous city of ...