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Mar 16, 2023 18:04:02   #
bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL
 
Why it's called Lake Superior . . . Pretty amazing. Did you realize how big this lake is ?

LAKE SUPERIOR FACTS

● Lake Superior contains ten percent of all the fresh water on the planet Earth.


● It covers 82,000 square kilometers or 31,700 square miles.



● The average depth is 147 meters or 483 feet.


● There have been about 350 shipwrecks recorded in Lake Superior



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

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


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


● 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.


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


● 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.


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


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


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


● 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.


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


● 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.



● In the summer, the sun sets more than 35 minutes later on the western shore of Lake Superior than at its south eastern edge.


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


● 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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Mar 16, 2023 18:08:35   #
Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona
 
Interesting. Lake Superior is not a lake, it's an inland sea

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Mar 16, 2023 18:11:32   #
davyboy Loc: Anoka Mn.
 
Thanks for the info I have lived in Minnesota my whole life and didn’t know all those interesting things

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Mar 16, 2023 18:26:05   #
bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL
 
Curmudgeon wrote:
Interesting. Lake Superior is not a lake, it's an inland sea



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Mar 16, 2023 18:26:21   #
bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL
 
davyboy wrote:
Thanks for the info I have lived in Minnesota my whole life and didn’t know all those interesting things



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Mar 16, 2023 18:49:02   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
Cool!

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Mar 16, 2023 19:12:13   #
bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL
 
Longshadow wrote:
Cool!



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Mar 16, 2023 20:14:53   #
lukevaliant Loc: gloucester city,n. j.
 
Curmudgeon wrote:
Interesting. Lake Superior is not a lake, it's an inland sea


isn't it fresh water?

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Mar 16, 2023 21:06:00   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
Also well known, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, as Gitch Gumee!!

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Mar 16, 2023 21:47:46   #
usnret Loc: Woodhull Il
 
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.

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Mar 16, 2023 22:44:30   #
ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or
 
It's a really cool lake. I live along it for 6 years back in the late 70s early 80s

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Mar 17, 2023 00:17:04   #
kpmac Loc: Ragley, La
 
Curmudgeon wrote:
Interesting. Lake Superior is not a lake, it's an inland sea


I think seas are saltwater bodies, Jack. Superior is fresh water.

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Mar 17, 2023 06:05:09   #
rdemarco52 Loc: Wantagh, NY
 
Very interesting.

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Mar 17, 2023 06:56:38   #
ClarkJohnson Loc: Fort Myers, FL and Cohasset, MA
 
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?

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Mar 17, 2023 08:49:22   #
TonyF Loc: Bradenton, FL
 
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."

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