Happy Lake Superior Day!
Celebrated every year on the third Sunday in July, for some apparent reason, Lake Superior Day is a day to bask in the glory of the largest of the Great Lakes. We’re lucky to have amazing access to it here in Michigan.
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Here are some fun facts about Lake Superior to help you soak it all in.
- Lake Superior is, by surface area, the largest freshwater lake in the world. (The Caspian Sea is considered the largest overall lake, even though it’s a sea? I don’t make the rules)
- Lake Superior contains as much water as all other Great Lakes combined, and more. Overall, it’s the fourth largest lake in the world by volume, containing 10% of the Earth’s fresh surface water.
- Let’s get deep: Lake Superior’s deepest point is 1,333 feet, the 10th deepest point for any lake in the world. Baikal Lake in Russia reaches more than 5,000 feet below. Eeek.
- Shipwrecks: Lake Superior is home to more than 300 recorded shipwrecks, accounting for more than 10,000 lives lost. The most famous, of course, was the Edmund Fitzgerald.
- It’s not as icy as you think: Lake Superior rarely freezes over 100%. The last time it came close was 2014, when it got to 91% ice coverage. Before then, the closest was 1979.
Read more: 🔒 How the Great Lakes were formed