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Which of the 5 Great Lakes is the most shallow?

Which of the 5 Great Lakes is the most shallow?

Lake Erie
Lake Erie. The fourth largest out of the five Great lakes, Erie is also the shallowest and the smallest in volume.

Which Great Lake has the smallest surface area?

Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario is 804 feet deep and 193 miles long. It is the smallest of the Great Lakes in surface area.

What is the smallest Great Lake by depth?

Lake Ontario is the smallest of the Great Lakes with an area of about 7,340 square miles. It is also the fourth smallest in volume after Lake Erie with a capacity of about 393 cubic miles.

Which Great Lake has the roughest waters?

Lake Michigan is being called the “deadliest” of all the Great Lakes.

Which is the cleanest Great lake?

Lake Superior
Lake Superior is the largest, cleanest, and wildest of all the Great Lakes.

Which Great lake is the calmest?

5 Reasons Why Lake Superior Is The Best Great Lake

  • Lake Superior is the Cleanest and Clearest Great Lake.
  • Lake Superior has Iconic Rock Formations, Agates, and Shipwrecks.
  • Secluded Towns and Beaches on Lake Superior.
  • Lake Superior is the Largest Great Lake.
  • Lake Superior is Ojibwe Gichigami – The Great Sea.

Which US state has the most shoreline on the Great Lakes?

The U.S. has just 125 miles more shoreline on the Great Lakes than Canada, however this is solely because of Lake Michigan, which is 1,600 miles of shoreline that Canada doesn’t have. To conclude, this chart clarifies why Michigan is truly the Great Lakes State with three times as much shoreline as the next state, Wisconsin.

How big are the Great Lakes?

The Great Lakes contain the largest supply of fresh water on earth; 20% of the earth’s total fresh water; 9,402 miles of shoreline; and 94,710 total square miles of surface area (about the size of Texas). The Great Lakes basin is a 295,200 square mile area within which all surface area drains into the Great Lakes.

How many miles of shoreline does the Upper Peninsula have?

This information has an additional 225 miles of shoreline than the statistics we posted earlier. Dan, to answer your question the Upper Peninsula has a significant portion of the Lake Superior shoreline compared to Wisconsin and Minnesota. It’s particularly interesting to compare the data between Canada and the United States.

What is the third largest lake in the world?

Michigan is the third largest Great Lake (although Lake Huron-Michigan, at 45,300 mi2 / 117,400 km2 is technically the world’s largest freshwater lake. This is because what have traditionally been called Lake Huron and Lake Michigan are really giant lobes of a single lake connected by the five mile wide Strait of Mackinac.)