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Lake Superior empties into Lake Huron via the St. Marys River and the Soo Locks (Sault Ste. Marie locks). Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by area and the third largest in volume, behind Lake Baikal in Siberia and Lake Tanganyika in East Africa.
2 Οκτ 2024 · Lake Superior, most northwesterly and largest of the Great Lakes of North America and one of the world’s largest bodies of fresh water. It is 350 miles (563 km) long (east to west), and its greatest width is 160 miles (258 km) from north to south. It has a maximum depth of 1,332 feet (406 meters).
17 Ιουν 2021 · Lake Superior is the largest and northernmost of the Great Lakes. At 82,000 square kilometers, it is the world’s largest freshwater lake by surface area.
Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake on Earth by surface area. It is also the second-largest lake on Earth after the Caspian Sea. Lake Superior's surface area is 82,000 km2 (31,700 sq mi).
Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. With a surface area of approximately 59,947 km 2 (23,146 sq mi), [6][7] Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, [8] and the world's second-largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North America. [9]
Many people know Lake Superior is the world's largest freshwater lake. But they may not realize that underneath the lake lays an enormous rift that almost tore North America apart about 1.1 billion years ago, long before dinosaurs roamed the earth.
24 Φεβ 2015 · Many of the rocks around Lake Superior are part of one of the Midwest’s most impressive geological features, the long belt of igneous (mostly volcanic) and sedimentary rocks called the Midcontinent Rift System (MCRS) or the Keweenaw Rift (see fig. 1, photo gallery at top of page).
