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Gull Island (Michigan)
Gull Island is the name of a dozen small islands in the U.S. state of Michigan. On Lake Huron: *In Alpena County at , just outside Thunder Bay and within the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. *In Arenac County at , at the mouth of the Saginaw Bay. It is a tiny island in Sims Township between Charity Island and Little Charity Island. *In Bay County at , in the Saginaw Bay at the mouth of the Saginaw River near Bay City. *In Mackinac County at at the eastern end of the Straits of Mackinac just off the southern shore of Bois Blanc Island. On Lake Michigan: *In Charlevoix County Gull Island Charlevoix County at , west of Beaver Island. It is within St. James Township and is part of the Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge. *In Delta County at , between St. Martin Island and Poverty Island at the southeast opening of the Big Bay de Noc. It is part of Fairbanks Township. Little Gull Island is an even smaller island about a mile to the south. *In Leelanau County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island
An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been part of a continent. Oceanic islands can be formed from volcano, volcanic activity, grow into atolls from coral reefs, and form from sediment along shorelines, creating barrier islands. River islands can also form from sediment and debris in rivers. Artificial islands are those made by humans, including small rocky outcroppings built out of lagoons and large-scale land reclamation projects used for development. Islands are host to diverse plant and animal life. Oceanic islands have the sea as a natural barrier to the introduction of new species, causing the species that do reach the island to evolve in isolation. Continental islands share animal and plant life with the continent they split from. Depending on how long ago the continental is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan ( ) is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume () and depth () after Lake Superior and the third-largest by surface area (), after Lake Superior and Lake Huron. To the east, its basin is conjoined with that of Lake Huron through the wide and deep Straits of Mackinac, giving it the same surface elevation as its eastern counterpart; hydrologically, the two bodies are Lake Michigan–Huron, a single lake that is, by area, the largest freshwater lake in the world. Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake located fully in the United States; the other four are shared between the U.S. and Canada. It is the world's List of lakes by area, largest lake, by area, located fully in one country, and is shared, from west to east, by the U.S. states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Ports along its shores include Chicago, Illinois, Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Milwaukee and Green Bay, Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keweenaw County, Michigan
Keweenaw County (, ) is a County (United States), county in the western Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the county's population was 2,046, making it Michigan's least populous county. It is also the state's largest county by total area, including the waters of Lake Superior, as well as the state's northernmost county. The county seat is Eagle River, Michigan, Eagle River. Located at the northeastern end of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Keweenaw County is part of the Houghton micropolitan area, Michigan, Houghton, Michigan micropolitan area. Keweenaw County contains two National Park Service units: Isle Royale National Park and Keweenaw National Historical Park. The county is part of Michigan's Copper Country region, an area where Copper mining in Michigan, copper mining was prevalent from the 1840s to the 1960s. History The county was set off and organized in 1861. It is believed "Keweenaw" is a corruption of an Ojib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Superior
Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface areaThe Caspian Sea is the largest lake, but is saline, not freshwater. Lake Michigan–Huron has a larger combined surface area than Superior, but is normally considered two separate lakes. and the third-largest freshwater lake by volume, holding 10% of the fresh water in all of the world's rivers and lakes. Located in central North America, it is the northernmost and westernmost of the Great Lakes of North America, straddling the Canada–United States border with the Canadian province of Ontario to the north and east and the U.S. states of Minnesota to the west and Michigan and Wisconsin to the south. It drains into Lake Huron via St. Marys River, then through the lower Great Lakes to the St. Lawrence River and ultimately the Atlantic Ocean. Name The Ojibwe name for the lake is ''gichi-gami'' (in syllabics: , pronounced ''gitchi-gami'' or ''kitchi-gami'' in different dialects), meaning "great sea". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Herring Gull
The American herring gull or Smithsonian gull (''Larus smithsonianus'' or ''Larus argentatus smithsonianus'') is a large gull that breeds in North America, where it is treated by the American Ornithological Society as a subspecies of herring gull (''L. argentatus''). Adults are white with gray back and wings, black wingtips with white spots, and pink legs. Immature birds are gray-brown and are darker and more uniform than European herring gulls, with a darker tail. As is common with other gulls, they are colloquially referred to simply as seagulls. It occurs in a variety of habitats including coasts, lakes, rivers, parking lots and garbage dumps. Its broad diet includes invertebrates, fish, and many other items. It usually nests near water, laying around three eggs in a scrape on the ground. Taxonomy This gull was first described as a new species in 1862 by Elliott Coues based on a series of specimens from the Smithsonian Institution. It was later reclassified as a subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Traverse Bay
Grand Traverse Bay ( ) is an arm of Lake Michigan, located along the west coast of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The bay is separated from the rest of Lake Michigan by the Leelanau Peninsula. The bay is some long, ranges from wide, and up to deep in spots. It is the second-largest bay of Lake Michigan, behind Green Bay. Grand Traverse Bay is further divided into an East Arm and West Arm by the Old Mission Peninsula. At the head of both arms of the bay is Traverse City, the largest city in Northern Michigan. The area surrounding the bay is renowned for its fruit production, especially for cherries and viticulture. The bay is located within parts of the Michigan counties of Antrim, Charlevoix, Grand Traverse, and Leelanau. Etymology Grand Traverse Bay earned its name from 18th-century French voyageurs who made ', or "the long crossing", across the mouth of bay. The area was owned by the French, followed by Great Britain as the Province of Quebec. After 1776, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leelanau County, Michigan
Leelanau County ( ) is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 22,301. Since 2008, the county seat has been located within Suttons Bay Township, Michigan, Suttons Bay Township, one mile east of the unincorporated village of Lake Leelanau, Michigan, Lake Leelanau. Before 2008, Leelanau County's seat was Leland, Michigan, Leland. Leelanau County is included in the Traverse City metropolitan area of Northern Michigan. The largest settlement in Leelanau County by population is Greilickville, Michigan, Greilickville, itself a suburb of Traverse City, Michigan, Traverse City. Leelanau County is coterminous with the Leelanau Peninsula, a roughly triangular-shaped peninsula that extends about off Michigan's Lower Peninsula of Michigan, Lower Peninsula into Lake Michigan. East of Leelanau County is Grand Traverse Bay, a bay of Lake Michigan. In 2011, the Sleeping Bear Dunes National La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairbanks Township, Michigan
Fairbanks Township is a civil township of Delta County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 297, up from 281 at the 2010 census. Communities *Fayette is an unincorporated community on the eastern shore of the Big Bay de Noc which opens into Green Bay on Lake Michigan at . It is at the southern terminus of M-183 about eight miles south of Garden within Fayette Historic State Park. It was created around an iron smelter in 1867. *Fairport is an unincorporated community at the southern end of the Garden Peninsula at . It is approximately six miles south of Fayette on Delta County Road 483, the locally maintained extension of M-183. It was founded in 1886 by fishermen who had relocated from St. Martin Island. History In 1867, the Jackson Iron Company had Fayette Brown build a charcoal iron smelter at Fayette, which grew up around the smelter and named after Brown. A Fayette post office opened on September 13, 1870 with Marvin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Bay De Noc
Big Bay de Noc is a bay in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The bay, which opens into Lake Michigan's Green Bay (Lake Michigan), Green Bay, is enclosed by Delta County, Michigan, Delta County. The Garden Peninsula is on the east side of the bay and the Stonington Peninsula is on the west side. The small Delta County settlements of Garden, Michigan, Garden and Nahma, Michigan, Nahma are harbors on the shore of the bay. As with the more thickly-settled Little Bay de Noc, the bay's name comes from the Noquet (or ''Noc'') Native Americans in the United States, Native American people (thought to have been related to the Menominee of the Algonquian languages, Algonquian language group), who once lived along the shores. The bay is historically important for its 19th-century use as a center of the Lake Michigan Smelting#Later iron smelting, iron smelting industry. A former smelting complex has been preserved as Fayette State Park. The state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poverty Island
Poverty Island is a 186 acre uninhabited island in northern Lake Michigan. It is one of an archipelago of islands across the entrance to Green Bay and Big Bay de Noc commonly called the Potawatomi Islands, which are an outcropping of the Niagara Escarpment. The island is within Delta County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The surface is a mixture of forest and rocky outcroppings. The only structures are the Poverty Island Light Station (1875), an abandoned lighthouse and outbuildings which are in disrepair. Poverty Island is currently owned by the federal government. Other islands in the Potawatomi archipelago include Little Summer Island, Summer Island, Gull Island, and St. Martin Island in Michigan, and Rock Island, Washington Island, Pilot Island, Detroit Island and Plum Island in Wisconsin. Poverty Island Passage between Poverty Island and Gull Island, is one of the principle passages into Green Bay. Le Griffon On June 16, 2013, U.S. and French archeologists began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delta County, Michigan
Delta County is a county in the Upper Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,903. The county seat is Escanaba. The county was surveyed in 1843 and organized in 1861. Its name originates from the Greek letter delta (Δ), which refers to the triangular shape of the original county which included segments of Menominee, Dickinson, Iron, and Marquette counties. Recreation and forest products are major industries, and crops include hay, corn, small grains, potatoes, and strawberries. Delta County comprises the Escanaba, MI Micropolitan Statistical Area. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (41%) is water. It is the fifth-largest county in Michigan by land area. Adjacent counties By land * Menominee County (southwest, Central Time Zone border) * Marquette County (northwest) * Alger County (north) * Schoolcraft County (east) By water * Leelanau County (southeast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge
The Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge is a designation for nine Michigan islands in the North American Great Lakes. Owned by the United States federal government, they were set aside for ecosystem protection purposes by President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1943. Charity, Little Charity, Scarecrow, Crooked, and Sugar islands form the Lake Huron division of the refuge. Gull, Hat, Pismire, and Shoe islands, which are part of the Beaver Island archipelago, form the Lake Michigan division. No single one of them is large enough to rate a full-time site staff from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and they are widely separated from each other in two separate Great Lakes. In an unusual administrative decision, the Fish and Wildlife Service, , has divided up management responsibilities over the Michigan Islands NWR between two larger, full-time-staffed wildlife refuges. The four Lake Huron islands are managed by Shiawasee National Wildlife Refuge, based in Saginaw, Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
