[All] Fw: The Amazing Lake Superior..

[Ginny Quinn]

Hello Greners   I checked with a few folks  and the concept is that most of this is true.but couldn't guarantee all of it.  Ginny

    Date: January 4, 2011 6:54:13 PM EST
    Subject: Fw: The Amazing Lake Superior..




















                                                      



              













                                Pretty Amazing….I did not realize how big this lake was!



                                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. 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 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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