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Why it's called Lake Superior
Pretty amazing..... do you know 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.

Superior is an amazing body of water.
I had the good fortune of being a summer student on a oil freighter in the 70's.
One of my most memorable "moments of amazement" was on Lake Superior.

We had left a northern most point of the lake early one evening, think it was Wawa. My shift ended at 4:00 AM, I came up from below deck to absolute blackness. The sky was clear and full of stars, and Superior being so clear and black the dead calm water reflected the stars perfectly, I couldn't tell where the sky stopped and the lake began. It was as though we were suspended sailing through the stars, like in a Sci Fi movie except it was real... I was awe struck. Truly memorable!

You truly are a plethora of interesting facts Kenny!!
You sir, should've been a school teacher.
( that woulda made for a pile of seriously fucked up kids, but man, they woulda had a real appreciation for school )
/;-)

LoL Had to look up what plethora meant I plagiarize my facts Greg… Just like a teacher lol
You know what they say …"If you can't do it , teach it" But thanks LoL I think...

thats some Mind bending facts .... 31 foot Wave!!

I was born in Thunder Bay, lived there till I was 8, go back every once in a while. Can't say I have too many memories at this point, but the drive around Superior should be done at least once in your lifetime, amazing scenery!

My friend, you would be one seriously cool teacher!!

I vividly remember watching 'North of Superior' at the Cinesphere at Ontario Place and so wanting to go there. It's still on my 'To Do' list:


http://youtu.be/91n-d1ZFjcs

that and lake of the woods are on my to do list. im hoping to get up to see superior this winter.