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Main menu. Main menu. move to sidebar hide. Navigation ... Commercial fishing on Lake Superior became important during the late ... 112 1.77% 1968: 1,351 22.93% 4,266 ...
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]
Located in Lake Superior, Isle Royale is the second largest island in the Great Lakes system, after only Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron. At 206.7 square miles (535 km 2), the island of Isle Royale itself is the third largest island in the contiguous United States (after Long Island and Padre Island) and is the fourth largest lake island in the ...
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point includes a variety of displays, from the famous lighthouse to a 1940s-era lifeboat to the restored lighthouse keeper’s quarters to the 200 ...
The following 56 pages use this file: Brockway Mountain Drive; Christmas, Michigan; Columbus Township, Luce County, Michigan; County Road 492 (Marquette County, Michigan)
DULUTH, Minn. (FOX 9) - The Lake Superior Zoo in Duluth, Minn. welcomed two new caribou, with season-appropriate names, just in time for the holiday. New reindeer at Duluth zoo.
The Grand Sable Dunes today form a five-mile-long sand slope that rises from Lake Superior at a 35° angle. The summits of the tallest dunes are as high as 275 feet (85 m) above lake level. Glacial melt during the last major advance/retreat called the Marquette Readvance created the conditions for the formation of the Grand Sable Banks.
Lake Michigan hit a high of 18%, while Lake Superior maxed out at 12% ice cover. Great Lakes ice maintains ecosystem health, recreation, infrastructure.