The Great Lakes


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North America's Great Lakes—a chain of five interconnected inland lakes that form a major part of the border between the United States and Canada —hold a little more than 20% of the world's entire freshwater supply.


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Great Lakes maps The Great Lakes constitute one of the largest freshwater systems on earth, containing 18% of the world's surface freshwater. Only the polar ice caps and Lake Baikal in Siberia contain more freshwater than the Great Lakes!


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The Great Lakes are a series of interconnected lakes along the Canada-US border consisting of Lake Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario. They connect to the North Atlantic through the Saint Lawrence River and jointly form the Great Lakes Waterway. The Great Lakes are the second largest freshwater lakes in the world after Lake Baikal.


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GREAT LAKES. GREAT LAKES. The Great Lakes, also called the Inland Seas, consist of five connecting freshwater lakes in east central North America that straddle the international border between Canada and the United States.Collectively they constitute the world's largest body of freshwater, with a surface area of 94,000 square miles (244,000 sq. km) and 5,500 cubic miles (23,000 cu. km) of water.


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The sandy shores of Sandbanks Provincial Park on Lake Ontario - Photo credit: Kevin Wagar. The Great Lakes Basin is the largest group of lakes on the planet.; The Great Lakes Basin covers an area of 476,366 km 2 (296,000 mi 2), nearly as large as Newfoundland and Labrador.; In total, the Great Lakes Basin contains 22,671 km 3 of water. This amounts to 21% of the world's freshwater and 84%.


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Map guide for lists of lakes of Canada Canada's largest lakes This is a list of lakes of Canada with an area larger than 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi). [2] [3] [4] [5] Alberta This is a list of lakes of Alberta with an area larger than 400 km 2 (150 sq mi). [2] [9] [10] British Columbia


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Canada, encompassing 9,984,670 km 2 (3,855,100 mi 2 ), is bordered by three oceans: the Atlantic to the east, the Pacific to the west, and the Arctic to the north. It shares the world's longest binational land border with the United States to the south and northwest.Canada, from west to east, is divisible into seven primary geographic regions:


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There are many major lakes in Canada in addition to the Great Lakes. Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake are in the Northwest Territories, Lake Athabasca spans the border between Saskatchewan and Alberta. Reindeer Lake is along the border between Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Lake Winnipeg, Lake Winnipegosis and Lake Manitoba are in Manitoba.


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Great Lakes Lake Erie, fourth largest of the five Great Lakes of North America. It forms the boundary between Canada (Ontario) to the north and the United States (Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York) to the west, south, and east.


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The Great Lakes of North America (Great Lakes) are a series of five interconnected deep freshwater lakes that are located in the east-central part of North America. The five lakes, Lake Superio r, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, and Lake Erie, span across Canada and the United States and form the largest body of fresh water on the planet.


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Political Map of the Great Lakes Region showing the U.S. states and Canadian provinces that border the lakes. The international boundary between the United States and Canada is also shown on the map - note how it crosses the lakes. The names of the five Great Lakes are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.


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Geography A map of the Great Lakes Basin showing the five sub-basins. Left to right they are: Superior (magenta); Michigan (cyan); Huron (green); Erie (yellow); Ontario (red). Though the five lakes lie in separate basins, they form a single, naturally interconnected body of fresh water, within the Great Lakes Basin.


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Great Lakes, chain of deep freshwater lakes in east-central North America comprising Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario.They are one of the great natural features of the continent and of the Earth. Although Lake Baikal in Russia has a larger volume of water, the combined area of the Great Lakes—some 94,250 square miles (244,106 square kilometres)—represents the largest.


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Map of the 10 Canada Provinces. E Pluribus Anthony. Canada is also divided into ten provinces—British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba—and three territories—Yukon Territory, Northwest Territory, and Nunavut. Continue to 3 of 19 below.


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Lake Superior Length: 350 miles (563 kilometers) Width: 160 miles (257 kilometers) Elevation: 600 feet (183 meters) Depth: 483 feet (147 meters) average; 1,333 feet (406 meters) maximum Volume: 2,900 cubic miles (12,100 cubic kilometers) Water surface area: 31,700 square miles (82,000 square kilometers)