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 kilometres or 31,700 square miles.

�   The average depth is 147 metres 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-Sainte-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 metres 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 metres 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 metres or 27 feet, making it the cleanest and clearest of the Great Lakes Underwater visibility in some spots reaches 30 metres.

�   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.

Thanks Randy