Why It's Called Lake Superior

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 metersor 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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