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Sank on Lake Superior. The Edmund Fitzgerald was a 729-foot-long (222 m) freighter that sank of an unknown cause in a storm on Lake Superior. The Fitzgerald is the largest ship to sink on the lakes. 46°59.91′N 85°06.61′W. / 46.99850°N 85.11017°W / 46.99850; -85.11017 ( SS Edmund Fitzgerald) SS Carl D. Bradley.
Valparaiso Moraine. Coordinates: 41°30′37″N 87°3′29″W. Valparaiso Moraine at Mink Lake, north of Valparaiso, Indiana. The Valparaiso Moraine is a recessional moraine (a land form left by receding glaciers) that forms an immense U around the southern Lake Michigan basin in North America. It is a band of hilly terrain composed of ...
Division 2: Middle Atlantic ( New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania) Region 2: Midwest (designated as the North Central Region before June 1984) [ 8] Division 3: East North Central ( Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin) Division 4: West North Central ( Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota ...
North Fox Island from the East. North Fox ( 45.4792°N 85.7771°W) is the smaller of the two islands, 3.32 square kilometres (3,320,000 m 2; 820 acres) in area, roughly 2 miles (3.2 km) wide by 1 mile (1.6 km) long. This island was purchased by real estate magnate David V. Johnson in 1994 for $1.3 million, and the entire island was sold back to ...
January 29, 1964 [ 3] The Illinois and Michigan Canal connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. In Illinois, it ran 96 miles (154 km) from the Chicago River in Bridgeport, Chicago to the Illinois River at LaSalle - Peru. The canal crossed the Chicago Portage, and helped establish Chicago as the transportation ...
The Great Lakes megalopolis consists of a bi-national group of metropolitan areas in North America largely in the Great Lakes region. It extends from the Midwestern United States in the south and west to western Pennsylvania and Western New York in the east and northward through Southern Ontario into southwestern Quebec in Canada.
KDLM broadcasts a variety of local and state sports including the Detroit Lakes Lakers HS teams, the Minnesota Vikings, Minnesota Twins, Minnesota Wild, Minnesota Lynx, Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Golden Gopher Football, Basketball and Hockey. KDLM also broadcasts Sunday Night and Monday Night football from Westwood One. Coast To Coast ...
The Great Lakes ( French: Grands Lacs ), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the east-central interior of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River. The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, and they are in general on or ...