20 Amazing Facts About Elliot Lake Ontario Canada

Amazing Facts About Elliot Lake Ontario Canada make Elliot Lake a very interesting and amazing tourist destination in Canada. Elliot Lake is a beautiful city in Ontario, Canada. It is north of the Lake Huron, it is in the midway between cities of Sault Ste and Sudbury. Marie is in Northern Ontario region. 

Once dubbed as “uranium capital of world,” Elliot Lake has diversified into hub for telescoping equipment for mining, exporting glass awards, manufacturing, mine reclamation expertise and forest harvesting.

In an addition, Elliot Lake is known as a place for four-season destination, lots of waterfront cottage and affordable retirement living.

Amazing Facts About Elliot Lake Ontario Canadao

1. Lake Superior contains around 10% of planet Earth’s surface water.

2. Lake Superior covers around 82,000 sq km with average depth of 483 feet.

3. Deepest point in this lake is around 405 meters.

4. There are about 350 shipwrecks which were recorded in Lake Superior and known to not to give up dead. Over 10,000 of lives have been lost in Lake’s water.

5. Lake Superior is the largest lake by surface area in the world.

6. Lake Superior contains water as all of the Great Lakes have after combining, three extra Lakes.

7. There is enough water in this Lake that it is sufficient to cover all South and North America with water by depth of one foot.

8. There are around 78 different species of fish which call big lake home.

9. Maximum wave which is ever recorded on Lake Superior was 31 feet high. It is one of the most Amazing Facts About Elliot Lake Ontario Canada.

10. If you have ever stretched shoreline of Lake Superior out to straight line, then it would be enough to reach from Duluth, Minnesota to Bahamas.

11. Around 300 rivers and rivers empty in Lake Superior with largest source being Nipigon River in Ontario.

12. Average underwater visibility of Lake Superior is around 8 meters, which make it clearest and cleanest of Great Lakes. Underwater visibility reaches 30 meters in some spots.

13. During summer, sun sets more than around 35 minutes later on western shore of Lake Superior.

14. World’s oldest rocks were formed around 2.7 billion years ago and can be found on Ontario shore of the Lake Superior.

15. Lake Superior freezes completely.

16. Average temperature of Lake Superior is around 2°C.

17. Trans Superior International Yacht Race is world’s longest freshwater sailboat for race.

18. Lake Superior has amazing and its own tides.

19. Changes in water levels are noticeable from winds pushing water to the Eastern shore.

20. Dense basalt of this lake acted like a brake or wall for glaciers around 18,000 years ago, which is driftless area in Wisconsin today.

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