Why it's called Lake Superior
Mar 17, 2023 09:33:10 #
The great lakes are fresh water...predominantly...but being connected to the Atlantic ocean via the St. Lawrence river...there is also some salinity...you will still sink like a rock.
Even in Chicago...down by the Soldier Field area...you can smell the salt.
Even in Chicago...down by the Soldier Field area...you can smell the salt.
Mar 17, 2023 10:10:27 #
Mar 17, 2023 10:41:33 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
Interesting. Lake Superior is not a lake, it's an inland sea
Whether Lake Superior is a lake or a sea is not quite clear. See article: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/great-lakes-inland-seas
Mar 17, 2023 11:05:01 #
PaulBrit
Loc: Merlin, Southern Oregon
Very interesting post that, as with some others, revealed facts that were not known by me. Thank you!
Mar 17, 2023 11:05:02 #
Nalu wrote:
Whether Lake Superior is a lake or a sea is not quite clear. See article: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/great-lakes-inland-seas
That seemed to muddy that waters....er....seas!!
Mar 17, 2023 11:35:58 #
SteveR wrote:
Also well known, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, as Gitch Gumee!!
Mar 17, 2023 11:36:36 #
usnret wrote:
Brings to mind the song by Gordon Lightfoot, "The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald" Some of the facts you mentioned were eluded to in his song.
Mar 17, 2023 11:37:38 #
ORpilot wrote:
It's a really cool lake. I live along it for 6 years back in the late 70s early 80s
Mar 17, 2023 11:38:07 #
Mar 17, 2023 11:38:52 #
ClarkJohnson wrote:
I had a friend in the Air Force back in the day who claimed to “know” that the USSR would never aim nukes at the Great Lakes because that amount of fresh water was too valuable to contaminate. Who knows if that was (is) true?
Mar 17, 2023 11:39:45 #
TonyF wrote:
Interesting, but why not stretch this line on the continental US so it made more sense?
"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."
"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."
Mar 17, 2023 11:40:16 #
Canisdirus wrote:
The great lakes are fresh water...predominantly...but being connected to the Atlantic ocean via the St. Lawrence river...there is also some salinity...you will still sink like a rock.
Even in Chicago...down by the Soldier Field area...you can smell the salt.
Even in Chicago...down by the Soldier Field area...you can smell the salt.
Mar 17, 2023 11:40:40 #
raymondh wrote:
Thanks for posting this most interesting data.
My pleasure.
Mar 17, 2023 11:41:30 #
PaulBrit wrote:
Very interesting post that, as with some others, revealed facts that were not known by me. Thank you!
My pleasure Paul.
Mar 17, 2023 11:58:23 #
lukevaliant wrote:
isn't it fresh water?
As the T-shirts say, "Unsalted, Shark Free"
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