Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes in North America. It has a surface area of 22,300 sq mi (58,000 km2). It is 267 by 103 nautical miles (307 by 119 mi; 494 by 191 km) wide, with an average depth of 46.5 fathoms (279 ft; 85.0 m) and a maximum depth of 154.2 fathoms (925 ft; 282.0 m). Lake Michigan is the 5th-largest lake in the world. The lake is separated from, but connected to the Canada–United States border-shared Lake Huron by the 4.3-nautical-mile-wide (4.9 mi; 8.0 km), twenty-fathom-deep (120 ft; 37 m) Straits of Mackinac.
Lake Michigan is surrounded by the U.S. states of Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan. It is the only Great Lake that is not partly in Canada.[1] The largest city on the shore of Lake Michigan is Chicago, Illinois.
The earliest time that people lived near the lake was 800 CE. The word "Michigan" originally meant the lake itself. It is believed to come from the Ojibwa word mishigami meaning "great water".[2]
The first person to reach the deepest part of Lake Michigan was J. Val Klump. Klump reached the bottom with a submarine as part of a 1985 research expedition.[3]
Twelve million people live along Lake Michigan's shores. They are mainly in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Lake Michigan". Great Lakes.net. Archived from the original on January 1, 2010. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
- ↑ "Superior Watershed Partnership Projects". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2014-09-01.
- ↑ "Variations In Sediment Accumulation Rates And The Flux Of Labile Organic Matter In Eastern Lake Superior Basins". The Journal of Great Lakes Research. 1989. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
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