LAKE SUPERIOR FACTS

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Just a little something to keep you occupied while I do a few other things...

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 Eries .
  
  
• There is a small outflow from the lake at St. Marys 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 a 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 southeastern 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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(I made this pic open to the public).

I am in love with our Great Lakes- Having been 'drawn' to them since I was a young child.
Receiving this email from my aunt is truly a gift to me.

XOXO
Me


PS
Time now to feed my little puppy-hehehe
(And yes, Sweet Lady Pamela, I shall be back to post a "Life" blog)...