Could cover all of North America in water 3 feet deep.
Is large enough to contain all the other great lakes plus three additional lakes the size of Lake Erie.
The largest freshwater lake in the world.
Final resting place for over 350 shipwrecks including the famous Edmund Fitzgerald.
With the entire surface frozen (which has only happened twice) there would be enough room for every person on earth to spread out a picnic blanket 12' x 12'.
Lake Superior was given the name Kitchi-gummi (or Gitchee Gumee), which means Great-water
or Great-lake by the Chippewa, also known as Ojibwe, Indians that made their home on the
lands surrounding the lake.
If measured by surface area, Lake Superior is the second largest lake in the world and
the first largest "freshwater" lake in the world with a volume of 12,100-cubed km
Lake Superior contains 10% of all the earth's fresh surface water.
The lake is about 350 miles (563 km) in length and 160 miles (257 km) in width.
The average annual water temperature of Lake Superior is 40º F. It only rarely
freezes over completely, and then usually just for hours. The last complete freezing of
Lake Superior occurred in 1979.
Lake Superior is the cleanest and clearest of the Great Lakes with an average underwater
visibility of 27 feet, (in places up to 100 feet).
The Lake Superior shoreline, if straightened out, could connect Duluth and the Bahama
Islands.
Over 300 streams and rivers empty into Lake Superior.
