NEWS

 
LAKE SUPERIOR FACTS
 
Lake Superior contains ten percent of all the fresh water on the planet Earth.
 
It covers 82,000 square kilometers or 31,700 square miles.
 
The average depth is 147 meters or 483 feet.
 
There have been 352 shipwrecks recorded in Lake Superior.
 
Lake Superior is, by surface area, the largest lake in the world.
 
A Jesuit priest in 1668 named it Lac Tracy, but that name was never officially adopted.
 
It contains as much water as all the other Great Lakes combined, plus three extra Lake Erie’s!!
 
There is a small outflow from the lake at St. Mary’s River (Sault Ste Marie) into Lake Huron, but it takes almost two centuries for the water to be completely replaced.
 
There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America with water one foot deep.
 
Lake Superior was formed during the last glacial retreat, making it one of the earth’s youngest major features at only about 10,000 years old.
 
The deepest point in the lake is 405 meters or 1,333 feet.
 
There are 78 different species of fish that call the big lake home.
 
The maximum wave ever recorded on Lake Superior was 9.45 meters or 31 feet high.
 
If you stretched the shoreline of Lake Superior out to a straight line, it would be long enough to reach from Duluth to the Bahamas .
 
Over 300 streams and rivers empty into Lake Superior with the largest source being the Nipigon River
 
The average underwater visibility of Lake Superior is about 8 meters or 27 feet, making it the cleanest and clearest of the Great Lakes.  Underwater visibility in some spots reaches 30 meters or 98 feet.
 
In the summer, the sun sets more than 35 minutes later on the Western shore of Lake Superior than at its Southeastern edge.
 
Some of the world’s oldest rocks, formed about 2.7 billion years ago, can be found on the Ontario shore of Lake Superior.
 
It very rarely freezes over completely, and then usually just for a few hours.  Complete freezing occurred in1962,1979, 2003 and 2009.
Why It’s Called Lake Superior
 

When you think you’ve seen everything….
Without the picture, this would be hard to believe.

Pogo Moose Incident – Bracebridge , Ont, Canada – 1 hr. 45min. north of Toronto. ‘They were laying new power cables which were strung on the ground for miles. The moose are rutting right now and very agitated. He was thrashing around and got his antlers stuck in the cables. When the men (miles away) began pulling the lines up with their big equipment, the moose went up with them. They noticed excess tension in the lines and went searching for the problem.
He was still alive when they lowered him to the ground.
He was a huge 60 inch bull and slightly teed off!’

Squirrels in church

The Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about
their squirrel infestation. After much prayer and consideration, they
concluded the squirrels were predestined to be there and they
shouldn’t interfere with God’s divine will.

At the Baptist church the squirrels had taken an interest in the baptistery.
The deacons met and decided to put a water-slide on the baptistery and
let the squirrels drown themselves. The squirrels liked the slide and,
unfortunately, knew instinctively how to swim so twice as many
squirrels showed up the following week.

The Lutheran church decided that they were not in a position to harm
any of God’s creatures. So, they humanely trapped their squirrels and
set them free near the Baptist Church. Two weeks later the squirrels
were back when the Baptists took down the water-slide.

But the Catholic church came up with a very creative strategy! They
baptized all the squirrels and made them members of the church. Now
they only see them at Christmas and Easter.

Not much was heard from the Jewish synagogue; they took the first
squirrel and circumcised him. They haven’t seen a squirrel since.