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Lake Champlain (/ ʃ æ m ˈ p l eɪ n / sham-PLAYN; French: Lac Champlain) is a natural freshwater lake in North America. It mostly lies between the US states of New York and Vermont, but also extends north into the Canadian province of Quebec. [3] The New York portion of the Champlain Valley includes the eastern parts of Clinton County and ...
Part of the Richelieu River as seen from Mont Saint-Hilaire. The Richelieu River (French: [ʁiʃ (ə)ljø] ⓘ) is a river of Quebec, Canada, and a major right-bank tributary of the St. Lawrence River. It rises at Lake Champlain, from which it flows northward through Quebec and empties into the St. Lawrence. It was formerly known by the French ...
Champlain Valley. Coordinates: 44°27′31″N 73°25′34″W. Landsat photo of the immediate Lake Champlain region—only part of the much longer drainage basin and overall valley which reaches the Atlantic Ocean north of Nova Scotia via the St. Lawrence Seaway. The Champlain Valley is a region of the United States around Lake Champlain in ...
Isle La Motte (French: Île La Motte) is an island in Lake Champlain in northwestern Vermont, United States. At 7 mi (11 km) by 2 mi (3 km), it lies close to the place that the lake empties into the Richelieu River. It is incorporated as a New England town in Grand Isle County. Its population was 488 at the 2020 census. [3]
Missisquoi Bay is a large extension in the northern part of Lake Champlain, at the East of the output of the latter in Richelieu River. [1] It takes the form of a violin head, with the neck extending from the head of the lake and is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) in diameter. The bay is divided between Quebec in Canada and Vermont in the United ...
Sea Grant Executive Program Leader Kris Stepenuck and UVM Agroecology Fellow Nora Beer prepare to drop a Secchi disk into Lake Champlain to measure water clarity July 18, 2024.
Lake Champlain currently has 51 known non-native and invasive species. The report highlights a few significant ones, and their potential threat to overtaking natural populations.
United States Lake Survey. The United States Lake Survey (USLS) was a hydrographic survey for the Great Lakes, New York Barge Canal, Lake Champlain and the Boundary Waters of the Canada–United States border between Minnesota and Ontario. The Survey's activities began on 31 March 1841, with the goal of surveying the Great Lakes.