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The Thumb is a region and a peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan, so named because the Lower Peninsula is shaped like a mitten.The Thumb area is generally considered to be in the Central Michigan region, east of the Flint area and the Tri-Cities and north of Metro Detroit.
Pickford Township is located in southeastern Chippewa County on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.It is bordered to the south by Mackinac County.The northeastern part of the township extends into Munuscong Lake, a large bay on the St. Marys River.
Peninsula Township contains the landmass known as the Old Mission Peninsula, and Power Island. According to the United States Census Bureau , the township has a total area of 31.8 square miles (82.5 km 2 ), of which 27.9 square miles (72.2 km 2 ) is land and 4.0 square miles (10.3 km 2 ) (13%) is water.
The Lower Peninsula is bounded on the west by Lake Michigan and on the northeast by Lake Huron, which connect at the Straits of Mackinac.In the southeast, the waterway consisting of the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, Detroit River, and Lake Erie separates it from the province of Ontario, Canada.
The Keweenaw Peninsula (/ ˈ k iː w ə n ɔː /, KEE-wə-naw) is a peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. Part of the greater landmass of the Upper Peninsula , the Keweenaw Peninsula projects about 65 miles (105 km) northeasterly into Lake Superior , forming Keweenaw Bay .
Tahquamenon Falls in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.. The heavily forested Upper Peninsula is relatively mountainous in the west. The Porcupine Mountains, which are part of one of the oldest mountain chains in the world, [3] rise to an altitude of almost 2,000 feet (610 m) above sea level and form the watershed between the streams flowing into Lake Superior and Lake Michigan.
Michigan's Upper Peninsula is bounded on land by Wisconsin to the southwest and west; and in territorial waters by Minnesota to the west, Ontario to the west, north and east, and the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin extends into Lake Michigan east of the western Upper Peninsula. Five Michigan Upper Peninsula counties include nearby major islands ...
L'Anse (/ l ɑː n s / LAHNSS) is a village and the county seat of Baraga County, Michigan. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The population was 1,874 at the 2020 census . [ 7 ] The village is located within L'Anse Township in the Upper Peninsula , [ 8 ] and partially inside the L'Anse Indian Reservation .