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Lake Superior 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]
Isle Royale is the least-visited national park in the contiguous United States, [36] due to the winter closing and the distance across Lake Superior to reach the park. The average annual visitation was about 19,000 in the period from 2009 to 2018, with 25,798 visiting in 2018. [ 2 ]
Isle Royale (/ ˈ r ɔɪ əl /, ROY-əl) [1] is an island of the Great Lakes located in the northwest of Lake Superior and part of the U.S. state of Michigan.The island and the 450 surrounding smaller islands and waters make up Isle Royale National Park.
At that time, the island was approximately 50 m 2 (540 sq ft) in size and only 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) above the waters of Lake Superior. In 1870, the site was developed by Alexander H. Sibley 's Silver Islet Mining Company which built wooden breakwaters around the island to hold back the lake's waves and increased the island's area ...
The Lake Superior shipwreck coast from Grand Marais, Michigan, to Whitefish Point became known as the "Graveyard of the Great Lakes". More vessels have been lost in the Whitefish Point area than any other part of Lake Superior. [117] The Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve serves as an underwater museum to protect the many shipwrecks in this area.
Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes, and the coastline is sparsely populated. At 206 square miles (530 km 2), Isle Royale is the largest Michigan island and is the center of Isle Royale National Park, which itself contains over 450 islands. The following is a list of islands in Lake Superior that are not part of Isle Royale National ...
The Susie Islands (The Susies) are a group of thirteen islands off the coast of the North Shore of Lake Superior in the Arrowhead Region of Minnesota.The outermost island is Lucille, and like Susie and Francis islands, it was named for a member of the Falconer family who once lived on Susie, mining its copper ore during the early 1900s.
Caribou Island is an uninhabited island in the eastern end of Lake Superior, 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of Michipicoten Island.It lies entirely within the territorial waters of Canada although only about five kilometres from the international border between Canada and the United States.