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The home, near the island's airport and the Stonecliffe Inn, sits on a bluff 100 feet above Lake Huron. The home's exterior, filled with windows, is beige and green, with red roofing and walkout ...
Les Cheneaux Islands (French: "The Channels") are an archipelago of 36 small islands, some inhabited, along 12 miles of Lake Huron shoreline on the southeastern tip of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. The name is French for "the Channels", noting the many channels between the islands in the group. [1]
The Holcombe Site is a Paleo-Indian archaeological site situated on what was, at the time it was occupied, the strandline of a small glacial lake that probably drained into nearby Lake Algonquin. Archaeologists found arrowheads, flint chips, and bone fragments at the site, indicating that these Paleo-Indians hunted Barren-ground Caribou .
The island also contains an 11-acre (0.04 km 2) pond, literally a 'lake within a lake', fed by springs. The island was named by lake mariners for its location, placed 'through the charity of God' at the entrance to Saginaw Bay midway between the city of Au Gres, Michigan and "The Thumb". The islands were not known as the Charity Islands until ...
An impressive property in Macomb County that features a stately four-bedroom home, a large stocked spring-fed pond, lush woods, and walking trails on 22.21 acres has recently hit the market for $1 ...
Michilimackinac (/ ˌ m ɪ ʃ ə l ə ˈ m æ k ə n ɔː / MISH-ə-lə-MAK-ə-naw) is derived from an Ottawa Ojibwe name for present-day Mackinac Island and the region around the Straits of Mackinac between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. [1] Early settlers of North America applied the term to the entire region along Lakes Huron, Michigan, and ...
By surface area, Lake Huron is the second-largest of the Great Lakes, with a surface area of 23,007 square miles (59,590 km 2)—of which 9,103 square miles (23,580 km 2) lies in Michigan and 13,904 square miles (36,010 km 2) lies in Ontario—making it the third-largest fresh water lake on Earth (or the fourth-largest lake, if the Caspian Sea ...
The Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge islands were set aside as resting places for migratory birds flying over the Great Lakes, but have drawn increased attention in the following decades for their Great Lakes ecosystem plant life, including the Dwarf Lake Iris, the state wildflower of Michigan, and Pitcher's thistle, both classified as ...