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Lake Erie
(Ontario, Great Lakes, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio)
Photos Lake Erie, the 11th-largest lake in the world and one of the Great Lakes of North America, straddles the borders of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, and the Canadian province of Ontario. The lake is named after the Native American tribe that inhabited its shores before being killed off by the ...
Lake Huron
(Ontario, Great Lakes, Michigan)
Photos A glacial lake of epic proportions, Lake Huron is the second largest of the five Great Lakes by surface area, boasting 23,010 square miles and an incredible 3,825-mile shoreline. The massive lake is the third largest of the Great Lakes by water volume, containing 850 cubic miles of fresh water within ...
Lake Michigan-Huron
(Ontario, Great Lakes, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin)
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 ...
Lake of the Woods
(Manitoba, Ontario, Minnesota)
Spanning the border from Minnesota into the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, Lake of the Woods is an enormous body of water over 68 miles long, 59 miles wide, with 25,000 miles of shoreline. The western part of the lake is mostly open water, while the eastern part is dotted with more than ...
Lake Ontario
(Ontario, Great Lakes, New York)
Photos Lake Ontario, one of the world's five Great Lakes, weaves over state and country borders, delighting Americans, Canadians, and visiting tourists with its deep, clear, clean waters. Proudly home to a staggering 4,700,000 acres (7,340 square miles), Lake Ontario is the smallest of the Great Lakes, the ...
Lake Saint Clair
(Ontario, Michigan)
Brought from the north by the great Lake Huron and taken to the south by the great Lake Erie, Lake Saint Clair is like David surrounded by Goliath?s. As the smallest lake in the Great Lake system, the heart-shaped Lake St. Clair has been denied official Great Lake status to the dismay and protests ...
Lake Superior
(Ontario, Great Lakes, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin)
Photos Skipping over state and country borders, Lake Superior, the largest, deepest, coldest, cleanest, least developed, and most pristine of the Great Lakes, reigns as the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area. By volume, this 31,820 square mile colossus ranks fourth for volume - a whopping ...
Rainy Lake
(Ontario, Minnesota)
Photos Rainy Lake forms a portion of the border between the USA and Canada, near International Falls and Ranier, Minnesota. It is a water sports lover's paradise. Rainy Lake's sprawling 221,000 acres (345 sq. miles) of surface water lap against 929 miles of exterior shoreline, with another 635 miles of ...

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