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2. Manitou Island Light Station - Wikipedia

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   The first lighthouse on Manitou Island was a rubble-stone tower [3] built in 1850. [2] In 1861, the current light replaced it (one of three built that year with iron structure by the West Point Foundry in New York; [4] the other two were De Tour Reef and Whitefish Point lights, the latter of which still stands and it and Manitou are the oldest iron skeletal light towers on the Great Lakes ...

3. Manitou Island (Lake Superior) - Wikipedia

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   Manitou Island is a small island in Lake Superior, off the northeastern tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is part of Grant Township, in Keweenaw County. Located approximately three miles from the mainland, it encompasses around 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2). Manitou has seen limited impact from human activity because of ...

4. Gull Rock Light Station - Wikipedia

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   The diminutive island is the “peak of an underwater mountain” between the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula and Manitou Island. [5]The bay on the eastern side of the Keweenaw Peninsula offers protection to mariners from the prevailing northwestern winds on Lake Superior; [10] however, the passage by Gull Rock, a tiny islet about one-half mile off Manitou Island's western tip, proved a serious ...

5. Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore - Wikipedia

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   Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a U.S. national lakeshore in the northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.Located within Benzie and Leelanau counties, the park extends along a 35-mile (56 km) stretch of Lake Michigan's eastern coastline, as well as North and South Manitou islands, preserving a total of 71,199 acres (111 sq mi; 288 km 2).

6. Manitou Island - Wikipedia

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   Manitou Island may refer to: Manitou Island (Lake Superior), a small island off the eastern tip of the Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula; Manitou Island (Wisconsin), one of the Apostle Islands on Lake Superior; The Manitou Islands, in Lake Michigan near the Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula consisting of North Manitou Island; South Manitou Island

7. Stannard Rock Light - Wikipedia

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   The Stannard Rock Reef is located off Keweenaw Peninsula about 24 miles (39 km) south of Manitou Island and 44 miles (71 km) north of Marquette, Michigan. [1] [10] In 1835, Captain Charles C. Stannard of the vessel John Jacob Astor first discovered this underwater mountain that extends for 0.25 miles (0.40 km) with depths as shallow as 4 feet (1.2 m) and averaging 16 feet (4.9 m).