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Lake Champlain in Burlington Harbor during sunset on May 27, 2012. Lake Champlain is in the Lake Champlain Valley between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains of New York, drained northward by the 106 mi-long (171 km) Richelieu River into the St. Lawrence River at Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, northeast and downstream of Montreal.
Glaciers grounded in the Bay 18,000 years ago and then melted there forming the Champlain Sea approximately 8,000 years ago. The maximum depth of the bay is about 4.75 m and its bottom is made of regional marine deposits. The bay waters drain south into the Champlain Lake and the Richelieu River. Until the late 2000s, the water of the bay was ...
Samuel de Champlain and his team reached the mouth of the river in 1603. [1] Champlain returned to the river in 1608 [15] and in 1609, exploring upriver and through Lake Champlain to modern-day Albany, New York. [1] Toponymy. The river was formerly known as "Masoliantekw", which means "water where there is plenty of food" in Abenaki. [16]
The North Branch of the Winooski River at Montpelier Map of the Winooski River watershed. The Winooski River (also known as the Onion River) is a tributary of Lake Champlain, approximately 90 miles (145 km) long, in the northern half of Vermont.
Name Location Volume Maximum Depth notes 1: Lake Superior: Michigan - Minnesota - Ontario - Wisconsin: 9,799,680,000 acre⋅ft (12,088 km 3) 1,332 ft (406 m) Third-largest fresh-water lake in the world by volume
The LCBP released their 2024 State of the Lake report, providing people with an aquatic update on all things Lake Champlain. The report is a welcome reminder of the value of Lake Champlain ...
Sea Grant Executive Program Leader Kris Stepenuck and UVM Agroecology Fellow Nora Beer prepare to drop a Secchi disk into Lake Champlain to measure water clarity July 18, 2024.
The lake's deepest point is 196 feet (60 m), between Dome Island and Buck Mountain in the southern quarter of the lake. The northern end of the lake that is located near Ticonderoga is considered the southern end of the Champlain Valley, which includes Lake Champlain, as well as the cities Plattsburgh, New York, and Burlington, Vermont.