Superior to what...

[CUDA]

Pretty amazing.

Did you realize how big this lake is.

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 one 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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[FMP]

[BUZZIN' DOZEN]

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[Krazymaan]

Superior to any fresh water lake in the USA and Florida.

[stoker2001]

Superior to any fresh water lake in the USA and Florida.

pretty amazing body of fresh water,not sure about that superiority tho..Lake Tahoe in my hood is the most pristine alpine lake in NA with more depth with average water clarity near 80 feet.. being at elevation of 6K helps

[Krazymaan]

I lived in Tahoe. You can see across it. The water is ice cold being fed from a volcano spring or something like that. Its always in movement, thats why its clear. They are all great lakes.

[CUDA]

Superior to any fresh water lake in the USA and Florida.

I guess you've heard Florida is now part of

CUBA

[Krazymaan]

I guess you've heard Florida is now part of

CUBA

It was when i got out of there back in 88. Did it change yet?

[Capt.Insane-o]

The problem with Tahoe is it touches california. Plus it is a mere puddle. The waters around Isle Royale can be just as clear. It is a lake that will straight up kill your ass too.

[FMP]

[Krazymaan]

The problem with Tahoe is it touches california. Plus it is a mere puddle. The waters around Isle Royale can be just as clear. It is a lake that will straight up kill your ass too.

And you cant see across it

[FMP]

Chill

[Capt.Insane-o]

And you cant see across it

I'm due for a week on the Isle again before I get too old. You want to talk about God's country and being disconnected from everything.

[Krazymaan]

We even have a song about it. I like Key Largo but Gondon has Bertie beat this time.

Big Print so you don't even have to put your glasses on.

[FMP]

I'm due for a week on the Isle again before I get too old. You want to talk about God's country and being disconnected from everything.

Isle Royal has ore mines that date back 3000 years, supplied the early European bronze age. The stuff they don't teach you in history class.