Bully Lakes Map

Great Lakes Map

To remember the Great Lakes names, think the word "HOMES."

H=Huron
O=Ontario
M=Michigan
E=Erie
S=Superior

The Groovy Lakes contain the largest supply of fresh water on earth; 20% of the earth's total fresh water; ix,402 miles of shoreline;  and 94,710 total square miles of surface area (nigh the size of Texas).  The Not bad Lakes bowl is a 295,200 square mile surface area within which all surface area drains into the Great Lakes.  It includes parts of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ontario and Quebec.

Lake Superior

Great Lakes - Lake Superior highlighted

"Uppermost Lake" (French); Kitchi-gummi, a Chippewa Indian translation, signifies "Great H2o," or "Keen Lake."  A Jesuit name, "Lac Tracy," was never officially adopted.

Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes by surface area and volume, and rich in natural resources.

  • Surface Area: 31,700 mi2 / 82,100 kmii
  • Volume: 2,934 mi3 / 12,230 km3
  • Length: 350 mi / 563 km
  • Depth: 489 ft / 149 k average; 1,335 ft / 407 m maximum
  • Shoreline Length: 2,726 miles / 4,385 km (including islands)
  • Top: 600 ft / 183 grand
  • Outlet: St. Marys River to Lake Huron
  • Memory/Replacement Time: 191 years

Lake Michigan

Great Lakes - Lake Michigan highlighted

Champlain chosen it the One thousand Lac.  Information technology was afterwards named "Lake of the Stinking Water" or "Lake of the Puants," after the people of other nations who occupied its shores.  In 1679, the lake became known equally Lac des Illinois, because it gave admission to the country of the Indians of that proper noun.  Allouez chosen it Lac St. Joseph, by which name information technology was often designated by early writers.  Others called information technology Lac Dauphine.  Through the farther explorations of Jolliet and Marquette, information technology received its final name of Michigan, Algonquian for "Groovy Water."

Michigan is the third largest Great Lake (although Lake Huron-Michigan, at 45,300 mi2 / 117,400 km2 is technically the globe'southward largest freshwater lake.  This is considering what have traditionally been called Lake Huron and Lake Michigan are really giant lobes of a unmarried lake connected by the 5 mile wide Strait of Mackinac.)

  • Surface area: 22,278 mitwo / 57,750 km2
  • Volume: i,180 mi3 / four,920 km3
  • Length: 307 mi / 494 km
  • Depth: 279 ft / 85 1000 boilerplate; 925 ft / 282 m maximum
  • Shoreline Length: 1,659 miles / 2,670 km (including islands)
  • Superlative: 581 ft / 177 m
  • Outlet: Straits of Mackinac to Lake Huron
  • Retentivity/Replacement Time: 99 years

Lake Huron

Great Lakes - Lake Huron highlighted

Since its French discoverers knew nothing as nonetheless of the other lakes, they called information technology La Mer Douce, the sweetness or fresh-water bounding main.  A Sanson map in 1656 refers to it as Karegnondi.

Huron is the second largest Great Lake (although Lake Huron-Michigan, at 45,300 mi2 / 117,400 km2 is technically the world's largest freshwater lake.  This is considering what take traditionally been called Lake Huron and Lake Michigan are really giant lobes of a single lake continued by the five mile wide Strait of Mackinac.) It has the longest shoreline of the Great Lakes, counting its 30,000 islands.

  • Surface Area: 22,973 mi2 / 59,500 km2
  • Volume: 850 mi3 / 3,540 kmiii
  • Length: 206 mi / 331 km
  • Depth: 194 ft / 59 m average; 748 ft / 229 m maximum
  • Shoreline Length: three,827 miles / 6,157 km (including islands)
  • Elevation: 581 ft / 177 m
  • Outlet: St. Clair River to Lake Erie
  • Memory/Replacement Time: 22 years

Lake Erie

Great Lakes - Lake Erie highlighted

The greater part of its southern shore was at one fourth dimension occupied by the Eries, a tribe of Indians from which the lake derived its proper noun.  This name is always mentioned by the early on French writers every bit significant "true cat"; Lac du Chat means "Lake of the Cat."  Many attribute this reference to the wild cat or panther.

Lake Erie is the 4th largest Great Lake and is the shallowest and warmest.

  • Surface Surface area: 9,906 mi2 / 25,657 km2
  • Volume: 116 mi3 / 483 kmiii
  • Length: 210 mi / 338 km
  • Depth: 62 ft / 19 m average; 210 ft / 64 m maximum
  • Shoreline Length: 871 miles / 1,400 km (including islands)
  • Elevation: 571 ft / 174 m
  • Outlet: Niagara River and Welland Culvert
  • Retention/Replacement Time: 2.6 years (shortest of the Slap-up Lakes)

Lake Ontario

Great Lakes - Lake Ontario highlighted

Champlain first called information technology Lake St. Louis in 1632.  On a Sanson map in 1656, information technology remained Lac de St. Louis.  In 1660, Creuxius gave information technology the name Lacus Ontarius.  Ontara in Iroquois means "lake," and Ontario, "beautiful lake."

Ontario is the smallest in surface area of the Corking Lakes.

  • Surface Area: vii,340 mi2 / xviii,960 km2
  • Volume: 393 mithree / one,640 km3
  • Length: 193 mi / 311 km
  • Depth: 282 ft / 86 thou average; 804 ft / 245 thousand maximum
  • Shoreline Length: 726 miles / one,168 km (including islands)
  • Peak: 246 ft / 75 1000
  • Outlet: St. Lawrence River to the Atlantic Ocean
  • Memory/Replacement Fourth dimension: 6 years