I think Michigan, Huron and Erie also rank in the top ten largest freshwater
lakes IN THE WORLD but they are dwarfed by Superior at the top of the list.
Canada has more than its share of the top ten in the world because I think
Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake are also in the top 10. That is the
extent of my lake trivia knowledge.
jim
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Subject: Re: Why It's Called Lake Superior...
My uncle was a seaman who worked on the big merchant boats on this “lake” and
he always talked about some of the wild storms.
Rick 🚲
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I haven't fact check but it's fits with the little I know about it.
Wynn
Why It's Called Lake Superior...
Our 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 1 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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