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Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by area and the third largest in volume, behind Lake Baikal in Siberia and Lake Tanganyika in East Africa. The Caspian Sea, while larger than Lake Superior in both surface area and volume, is brackish . Lake Superior deepest point [4] on the bathymetric map.
- Great Lakes of North America
The Great Lakes (French: Grands Lacs), also called the Great...
- List of Lakes by Area
Dymaxion world map with the 15 largest lakes roughly to...
- Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Bridalveil Falls emptying into Lake Superior Miners' Castle...
- Water Volume
The list. The volumes of the lakes below vary little by...
- Isle Royale
Isle Royale (/ ˈ r ɔɪ əl /, ROY-əl) is an island of the...
- Superior Shoal
Superior Shoal's four geologic ridges. Contour interval: 20...
- Great Slave Lake
Great Slave Lake is the second-largest lake in the Northwest...
- Retention Time
The lake retention time for a body of water with the volume...
- The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald
The song chronicles the final voyage of the Edmund...
- St. Marys River
The St. Marys River, sometimes written St. Mary's River,...
- Great Lakes of North America
47.478089°N 90.999858°W. / 47.478089; -90.999858 ( Amboy) Amethyst/Sophie's Wreck. Wooden tug. 1868. 1888. 8 feet (2.4 m) Wreck of a small wooden tugboat discovered in 2007 near Duluth, Minnesota. Thought to be the remains of the Amethyst, a tug which burned and sank near Duluth, Minnesota in 1888.
ShipShip TypeBuild DateSunk DateWooden tug18811923Alice VivianWooden dredge18981975Wooden schooner barge18741905Amethyst/Sophie's WreckWooden tug18681888Apr 15, 2024 · Lake Superior is 350 miles (563 km) long (east to west), and its greatest width is 160 miles (258 km) from north to south. It has a mean surface elevation of 600 feet (180 metres) above sea level and a maximum depth of 1,332 feet (406 metres). The lake’s drainage basin is 49,300 square miles (127,700 square km), exclusive of its surface area ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Lake Superior Chippewa ( Anishinaabe: Gichigamiwininiwag) are a large number of Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) bands living around Lake Superior; this territory is considered part of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota in the United States. They migrated into the area by the seventeenth century, encroaching on the Eastern Dakota people who ...
Jun 28, 2017 · The name Superior refers to its size and also designates the lake's position as the northernmost of all the Great Lakes. The lake is about 160 miles (257 kilometers) wide and about 350 miles (563 ...
- Kim Ann Zimmermann
Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area and the third-largest freshwater lake by volume, holding 10% of the world's surface fresh water. Located in central North America, it is the northernmost and westernmost of the Great Lakes of North America, straddling the Canada–United States border with the Canadian province of Ontario to the north and east and the U ...
Aug 1, 2004 · The light was established after a 1905 storm blew a ship into the pier. This story is part of our series on Lake Superior lighthouses. “April 23 – Digging up suer to let water out of 1 assts basement which was flooded with nearly two foot of water, weather cold with snow squals north west wind.”. Daily life, apparently, was not a nonstop ...
