#great lakes

[oldschoolfrp]

FYI: It occurred to me that in that "C6: The Official RPGA Tournament Handbook" illustration, Jeff Easley positioned one of the corners of the icosahedron directly over Lake Geneva, WI.

Good catch:

#Jeff Easley #Lake Geneva WI #Lake Geneva Wisconsin #Great Lakes #maps #map #D&D #dnd #Dungeons & Dragons #The Official RPGA Tournament Handbook

[ripeteeth]

One of my favorite things is taking someone to the Great Lakes for the first time - or describing how you can fly over them and see only hundreds of miles of glittering blue water and no coasts at all; how they have their own Coast Guard (the only lakes to do so); that the Earth's rotation steers their currents; that they're studied using ocean models; that they have wrecked more than 6000 ships - and watch them realize that the word "lake" is misleading and that they had no idea of the size and majesty of them at all.

#great lakes #this is a great lake appreciation post

[radiojamming]

Have a sign from Grand Marais, MI that’s haunted me since childhood

#lake superior #great lakes #we go to this town every year and when i was a very wee little DJ #i used to beg my mom to take me to this sign #aaaand i called it the dead boys sign

[mapsontheweb]

The Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River superimposed on a map of Europe

#maps #europe #great lakes #comparison

[satakentia]

Lake Huron Sunrise (x,x) August 13, 2022, Michigan, USA

by Marie Barns Green

#landscape #sunrise #curators on tumblr #michigan #colorful #vibrant #photoset #usa #north america #cl #lake huron #great lakes #1k #5k

[ftxfagula]

#great lakes #at least one person better mention the gordon lightfoot song #and sufjan stevens #i have a bias #someone ask me about the bears… #lake michigan #midwest #lake superior

[hbmmaster]

ad for visiting canada: FIND OUT WHY THEY'RE CALLED THE GREAT LAKES

me, out loud: it's cause they're big

#ads #Canada #great lakes #hbmmaster

[fortheeeyes1]

Lake Superior Minnesota

#great lakes #lake superior #minnesota #lighthouse #nature #outdoors

[lake-lady]

#poll #great lakes #ecosystems #ecology #marsh #lake #lakeposting #freshwater #wetlands #fen #bog #cattail #wild rice #forest #boreal #boreal forest #prairie #dune #dunes #dune and swale #estuary #delta #wet meadow #swamp

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Lake Superior, Minnesota

#lake superior #great lakes #lighthouses #my photos #north woods gothic #ntnav #minnesota

[clove-pinks]

A few Fresnel lenses from my visit to the National Museum of the Great Lakes! This one is a fourth-order lens from the lighthouse on Ojibwa Island, Lake Michigan, made in 1891.

A cute little fifth-order lens, which was used in Sandusky Harbor, Ohio, in 1891.

No first-order Fresnel lenses were used on the Great Lakes, and only five second-order lenses were placed. One of them was in the Spectacle Reef Lighthouse on Lake Huron in 1873, now in the museum:

My photography doesn't give a true sense of scale; that second-order lens is huge.

There is also a model of the lightship Huron, which is now a museum ship you can visit.

#great lakes #lighthouse #fresnel lens #naval history #age of sail #age of steam #national museum of the great lakes #lightship

[floridaboiler]

Things You Probably Never Knew About The Great Lakes.....

1. Lake Superior is actually not a lake at all, but an inland sea .

2. All of the four other Great Lakes, plus three more the size of Lake Erie, would  fit inside of Lake Superior.

3. Isle Royale is a massive island surrounded by Lake Superior. Within this island are several smaller lakes. Yes, that’s a lake on a lake.

4. Despite its massive size, Lake Superior is an  extremely young   formation by Earth’s standards (only 10,000 years old).

5. There is enough water in Lake Superior to  submerge all of North and South America in 1 foot of water.

6. Lake Superior contains 3 quadrillion gallons of water (3,000,000,000,000,000). All five of the Great Lakes combined contain 6 quadrillion gallons.

7. Contained within Lake Superior is a whopping 10% of the world’s fresh surface water.

8. It’s estimated there are about 100 million lake trout   in Lake Superior. That’s nearly one-fifth of the human population of North America!

9. There are small outlets through which water leaves Lake Superior. It takes two centuries for all the water in the lake to replace itself.

10. Lake Erie is the fourth-largest Great Lake in surface area, and the smallest in depth. It’s the 11th largest lake on the planet.

11. There is alleged to be a 30- to 40-foot-long “monster” in Lake Erie named Bessie. The earliest recorded sighting goes back as early as 1793.

12. Water in Lake Erie replaces itself   in only 2.6 years, which is notable considering the water in Lake Superior takes two centuries.

13. The original publication of Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax contained the line, “I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie.”Fourteen years later, the Ohio Sea Grant Program wrote to Seuss to make the case that conditions had improved. He removed the line.

14. Not only is lake Erie the smallest Great Lake when it comes to volume, but it’s surrounded by the most industry.Seventeen metropolitan areas, each with populations of more than 50,000, border the Lake Erie basin.

15. During the War of 1812, the U.S. beat the British in a naval battle calledthe Battle of Lake Erie, forcing them to abandon Detroit.

16. The shoreline of all the Great Lakes combined equals nearly 44% of the  circumference  of the planet.

17. If not for the the Straits of Mackinac, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron might be considered one lake.Hydrologically speaking, they have the same mean water level and are considered one lake.

18. The Keystone State  was one of the largest and most luxurious wooden steamships running during the Civil War.In 1861, it disappeared. In 2013, it was found 30 miles northeast of Harrisville under 175 feet of water.

19. Goderich Mine is the largest salt mine in the world. Part of it runs underneath Lake Huron, more than 500 meters underground.

20. Below Lake Huron, there are  9,000-year-old animal-herding structures   used by prehistoric people from when the water levels were significantly lower.

21. There are  massive sinkholes in Lake Huron that have high amounts of sulfur and low amounts of oxygen, almost replicating the conditions of Earth’s ancient oceans 3 million years ago. Unique ecosystems are contained within them.

22. Lake Huron is the second largest among the Great Lakes, and the  fifth largest in the world.

23.  In size, Lake Michigan ranks third among the Great Lakes, and sixth among all freshwater lakes in the world.

24. Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake that is entirely within the borders of the United States.

25. The largest fresh water sand dunes in the world line the shores of Lake Michigan.

26. Because water enters and exits Lake Michigan through the same path, it takes 77 years longer for the water to replace itself   than in Huron, despite their similarity in size and depth. (Lake Michigan: 99 years, Lake Huron: 22 years)

27. When the temperature of Lake Michigan is below freezing, this happens.

28. Within Lake Michigan there is a “triangle” with a similar reputation to the Bermuda Triangle, where a large amount of “strange disappearances” have occurred. There have also been alleged UFO sightings.

29. Singapore, Mich., is a ghost town on the shores of Lake Michigan that was buried under sand in 1871. Because of severe weather conditions and a lack of resources due to the need to rebuild after the great Chicago fire, the town was lost completely.

30. In the mid-19th century, Lake Michigan had a pirate problem. Their booty: timber. In fact, the demise of Singapore is due in large part to the rapidly deforested area surrounding the town.

31. Jim Dreyer  swam across Lake Michigan in 1998 (65 miles), and then in 2003, he swam the length of Lake Michigan (422 miles).

32. Lake Michigan was the location of the first recorded “Big Great Lakes disaster,” in which a steamer carrying 600 people collided with a schooner delivering timber to Chicago. Four hundred and fifty people died.

33. Lake Ontario is the smallest of the Great Lakes in surface area, and second smallest in depth. It’s the  14th largest lake   on the planet.

34. The province Ontario was  named after   the lake, and not vice versa.

35. In 1804, a Canadian warship, His Majesty’s Ship Speedy, sank in Lake Ontario. In 1990, wreck hunter Ed Burtt managed to find it.  Only, he isn’t allowed to recover any artifacts until a government-approved site to exhibit them is found. He’s still waiting.

36. Babe Ruth hit his  first major league home run   at Hanlan’s Point Stadium in Toronto. It landed in Lake Ontario and is believed to still be there.

37. A lake on Saturn’s moon Titan is named after Lake Ontario.

#Great Lakes #Facts #Did You Know #Lake Huron #Lake Ontario #Lake Michigan #Lake Erie #Lake Superior

[countriesgame]

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have any fun fact about the Great Lakes Region, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

Be respectful in your comments. You can criticize a government without offending its people.

#great lakes #the united states #canada #north america #country polls #polls #not a country

[cryptide-travis]

i'm allowing this image to breach containment

#ohio #guilty gear #sol bad guy #dr paradigm #faygo #great lakes #bengals #the loveland frogman

[mapsontheweb]

Lighthouses of the Great Lakes.

by researchremora

#maps #researchremora #twsourced #country lighthouses #great lakes

[satakentia]

New Beginnings Lake Huron, Michigan, USA

by Maria Barns Green

#landscape #sunrise #curators on tumblr #dawn #great lakes #michigan #usa #north america #outdoors #lake huron #cl