Lake Michigan-Huron
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Lake Michigan-Huron: Description
Lake Michigan and Lake Huron share the same elevation of 577 feet above sea level, and they are connected by the five-mile-wide Straits of Mackinac. Hydrologically, this makes the two a single lake that some designate as Lake Michigan-Huron.
We list the combined entity here to acknowledge that some consider Lake Michigan-Huron to be the world's largest lake, measured by its combined surface area of 45,410 square miles.
The combined entity Lake Michigan-Huron is the world's fourth-largest lake by volume: 3,000 cubic miles. The world's largest three lakes by volume are Lake Baikal (first, in Russia), Lake Tanganyika (second, in central Africa), and Lake Superior (third, in North America).
At LakeLubbers, we treat Lake Michigan and Lake Huron as two separate lakes, but acknowledge the combined surface area and volume as "points of interest" to our visitors.
Lake Michigan-Huron: Statistics
- Type: Natural Freshwater Lake, Not Dammed
- Area: 29,062,400 acres
- Volume: 10,137,600,000 acre-feet
