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The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border.The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario (though hydrologically, Michigan and Huron are a single body of water, as they are joined by the Straits of Mackinac).
The area of some lakes fluctuates substantially. For those lakes partially in Canada or Mexico the area given for the lake is the total area, not just the part of the lake in the United States. Of the top 100 lakes, 55 are man-made and 45 are natural. Two lakes in the top 100 are primarily salt water, and two are primarily brackish water.
Deepest lake in North America [22] 9: Erie Canada United States: Fresh 25,667 km 2 9,910 sq mi [14] 388 km 241 mi 64 m 210 ft [14] 488 km 3 117 cu mi [14] Has the smallest volume of the Great Lakes. 10: Winnipeg Canada: Fresh 24,514 km 2 9,465 sq mi 425 km 264 mi 36 m 118 ft 294 km 3 71 cu mi Very large catchment area compared to own size. No ...
Lake Erie (/ ˈ ɪr i / EER-ee) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. [6] [10] It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes [11] [12] and also has the shortest average water residence time. At its deepest point, Lake Erie is 210 ...
Map of Lake Huron and the other Great Lakes. Lake Huron (/ ˈ h jʊər ɒ n,-ən / HURE-on, -ən) is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.It is shared on the north and east by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south and west by the U.S. state of Michigan.
The five Great Lakes of North America touch eight states and are the largest group of freshwater lakes on the planet by total area (more than 94,000 square miles), covering 21 percent of the world ...
Editor’s Note: Read the latest on the lake-effect snow here.This story is no longer being updated. As biting cold temperatures sweep across a large swath of the US, parts of the Great Lakes face ...
Lake Michigan (/ ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ ɡ ən / ⓘ MISH-ig-ən) is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume [5] (1,180 cu mi; 4,900 km 3) and depth (923 ft; 281 m) after Lake Superior and the third-largest by surface area (22,405 sq mi; 58,030 km 2), after Lake Superior and Lake Huron.