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[7] [8] [9] Lake Superior contains 2,900 cubic miles (12,100 km 3) of water. [7] There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover the entire land mass of North and South America to a depth of 30 centimetres (12 in). [b] The shoreline of the lake stretches 2,726 miles (4,387 km) (including islands). [7]
Maximum Depth notes 1: Lake Superior: Michigan - Minnesota - Ontario - Wisconsin: 9,799,680,000 acre⋅ft (12,088 km 3) 1,332 ft (406 m) Third-largest fresh-water lake in the world by volume: 2: Lake Michigan: Illinois - Indiana - Michigan - Wisconsin: 3,987,455,942 acre⋅ft (4,918 km 3) 925 ft (282 m) L. Huron and. L. Michigan may be ...
The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border.The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario (though hydrologically, Michigan and Huron are a single body of water, as they are joined by the Straits of Mackinac).
Therefore, mean depth figures are not available for many deep lakes in remote locations. [9] The average lake on Earth has the mean depth 41.8 meters (137.14 feet) [9] The Caspian Sea ranks much further down the list on mean depth, as it has a large continental shelf (significantly larger than the oceanic basin that contains its greatest depths).
Isle Royale geologic map Cross-section of the Lake Superior basin showing the tilted strata of volcanic rock that form Isle Royale. The island is composed largely of ridges, running roughly southwest-to-northeast. The main ridge, Greenstone Ridge, is over 1,000 ft (300 m) in many places.
A freighter in Lake Superior hit something underwater on Saturday and started taking on water, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard Great Lakes district received reports about 6:53 a ...
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African Great Lakes: 32,900 km 2 (12,700 sq mi) 18,750 km 3 (4,500 cu mi) Fresh Superior Canada, United States. North American Great Lakes: 82,100 km 2 (31,700 sq mi) 12,070 km 3 (2,900 cu mi) Fresh Malawi Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania. African Great Lakes: 29,600 km 2 (11,400 sq mi) 8,640 km 3 (2,070 cu mi) Fresh Vostok Antarctica. Under the ...