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Lake Superior. Another reason to love Michigan.

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We have all/most of the planet's fresh water. Someday, the planet will fight for it, and existence.

0ur educational lesson for the day.


Why it's called Lake Superior
Pretty amazing ... Did you realize
how big this lake is?



LAKE SUPERIOR FACTS

1 Lake Superior contains ten percent of all the fresh water on the planet Earth.
2 It covers 82,000 square kilometers or 31,700 square miles.

3 The average depth is 147 meters or 483 feet.

4 There have been about 350 shipwrecks recorded in Lake Superior

5 Lake Superior is, by surface area, the largest lake in the world.

6 A Jesuit priest in 1668 named it Lac Tracy , but that name was never officially adopted.

7 It contains as much water as all the other Great Lakes combined, plus three extra Lake Erie's!

8 There is a small outflow from the lake at St. Mary's River (Sault Ste Marie) into Lake Huron , but it takes almost two centuries for the water to be completely replaced.

9 There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America with water one foot deep.

10 Lake Superior was formed during the last glacial retreat, making it one of the earth's youngest major features at only about 10,000 years old.

11 The deepest point in the lake is 405 meters or 1,333 feet.

12 There are 78 different species of fish that call the big lake home.

13 The maximum wave ever recorded on Lake Superior was 9.45 meters or 31 feet high.

14 If you stretched the shoreline of Lake Superior out to a straight line, it would be long enough to reach from Duluth to the Bahamas .

15 Over 300 streams and rivers empty into Lake Superior with the largest source being the Nipigon River

16 The average underwater visibility of Lake Superior is about 8 meters or 27 feet, making it the cleanest and clearest of the Great Lakes . Underwater visibility in some spots reaches 30 meters.
17 In the summer, the sun sets more than 35 minutes later on the western shore of Lake Superior than at its southeastern edge.

18 Some of the world's oldest rocks, formed about 2.7 billion years ago, can be found on the Ontario shore of Lake Superior.

19 It very rarely freezes over completely, and then usually just for a few hours. Complete freezing occurred in 1962, 1979, 2003 and 2009.
 
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On the Gitchigoomie there is an Island 45 miles long, It's a National Park,, Isle Royale. Also don't forget the Apostle Islands. Great ferry ride.
 


Superior is awesome. More shipwrecks than the Bermuda Triangle.

Cleanest of the Great Lakes.
 
cool facts :thumbsup: but....todays maths lesson, 10% leaves 90% ,not exactly all or most .in fact the term" f*ck all" comes to mind ,coming from the driest continent on earth " I'm an expert on f*ck all water " :lol:
 
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I gotta take a trip up this summer, I live so close but haven't made the trip in years.
 
I already knew a bunch of those facts, but thanks anyway.
 
I hope they introduce some new wolves to Isle Royal. It's down to 2.
 
Don't forget Lake Superior is also part of the great state of Minnesota. It's not only a MI treasure
 
Cool facts. If you go visit from the U.P. of MI, beware of the black flies! That's their dirty little secret that we found out the hard way last summer.
 
Pesky black flies.... I thought you were talking about Detroit
 
Yeah, those black flies are like a plague when they come in from the south. Just brutal. They look like normal house flies but they bite your ankles and feet. they don't bother you much anywhere else - just down low. It's like something out of a horror movie - you'll look down and have multiple clusters of probably 10-20 of them all over your socks instantly when you go outside. the only relief is to wear jeans. Kind of sucks when it's 85-90 degrees. We were told that they stay until the wind shifts back from the north. I should add that Lake Superior is a beautiful lake. We had spent a week in the U.P. a different time but got lucky and didn't experience the flies.
 
We have all/most of the planet's fresh water. Someday, the planet will fight for it, and existence.

0ur educational lesson for the day.


Why it's called Lake Superior
Pretty amazing ... Did you realize
how big this lake is?



LAKE SUPERIOR FACTS

1 Lake Superior contains ten percent of all the fresh water on the planet Earth.
2 It covers 82,000 square kilometers or 31,700 square miles.

3 The average depth is 147 meters or 483 feet.

4 There have been about 350 shipwrecks recorded in Lake Superior

5 Lake Superior is, by surface area, the largest lake in the world.

6 A Jesuit priest in 1668 named it Lac Tracy , but that name was never officially adopted.

7 It contains as much water as all the other Great Lakes combined, plus three extra Lake Erie's!

8 There is a small outflow from the lake at St. Mary's River (Sault Ste Marie) into Lake Huron , but it takes almost two centuries for the water to be completely replaced.

9 There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America with water one foot deep.

10 Lake Superior was formed during the last glacial retreat, making it one of the earth's youngest major features at only about 10,000 years old.

11 The deepest point in the lake is 405 meters or 1,333 feet.

12 There are 78 different species of fish that call the big lake home.

13 The maximum wave ever recorded on Lake Superior was 9.45 meters or 31 feet high.

14 If you stretched the shoreline of Lake Superior out to a straight line, it would be long enough to reach from Duluth to the Bahamas .

15 Over 300 streams and rivers empty into Lake Superior with the largest source being the Nipigon River

16 The average underwater visibility of Lake Superior is about 8 meters or 27 feet, making it the cleanest and clearest of the Great Lakes . Underwater visibility in some spots reaches 30 meters.
17 In the summer, the sun sets more than 35 minutes later on the western shore of Lake Superior than at its southeastern edge.

18 Some of the world's oldest rocks, formed about 2.7 billion years ago, can be found on the Ontario shore of Lake Superior.

19 It very rarely freezes over completely, and then usually just for a few hours. Complete freezing occurred in 1962, 1979, 2003 and 2009.


We were standing on Lake Superior two weeks ago. We were riding snowmobiles out of Paradise. Rode up to White Fish Point Light House... went out on the lake.
Check out the Sun Rise over White Fish Bay we had every morning Man the UP is an Awesome Place.

Light House.JPG Sun Rise 1.JPG Sun rise 2.JPG Ice 1.JPG Ice 2.JPG
 
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