Lake St. Clair (North America)
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Lake St. Clair Lake Saint Clair, Lac Sainte-Claire |
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Satellite image of Lake Saint Clair. In the north, the St. Clair River flows from Lake Huron into Lake Saint Clair, and in the south, the Detroit River connects to Lake Erie . |
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| Geographical location | between Michigan (USA) and Ontario (Canada) | |
| Tributaries | St. Clair River from Lake Huron , Thames River | |
| Drain | Detroit River to Lake Erie | |
| Islands | Gull Island, Harsens Island, Strawberry Island, Peche Island | |
| Location close to the shore | Detroit , Windsor | |
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| Coordinates | 42 ° 24 ′ N , 82 ° 40 ′ W | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 175 m | |
| surface | 1 114 km² | |
| length | 41.8 km | |
| width | 38.6 km | |
| volume | 4.17 km³ | |
| Maximum depth | 8.2 m | |
| Middle deep | 3.4 m | |
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| A satellite image with additional colors, taken by Landsat 7 , shows Lake Saint Clair with Detroit in the center and Canadian Windsor to the southeast | ||
The Lake St. Clair ( French Lac Sainte-Claire , in the USA Lake Saint Clair ) is a lake between the Canadian province of Ontario and the US state of Michigan , about ten kilometers northeast of Detroit .
The approximately 1114 km² large lake forms part of the Great Lakes system, although it is not one of them. The lake, together with the St. Clair River and the Detroit River, forms the connection between Lake Huron and Lake Erie .
geography
The lake has an extension of 42 kilometers in north-south direction and 37 kilometers from east to west. The water is pretty shallow. The average water depth is three meters. The greatest natural depth is 6.4 meters. A fairway that is 8.2 meters deep has been dredged for cargo ships .
Lake St. Clair gets its water from the northern Huron Lake, which soaks the St. Clair River. At its mouth, the river forms one of the largest river deltas within the Great Lakes System. The Thames River and Sydenham Rivers flow into the lake from the east, and the Clinton River from Michigan to the west. The water flows south through the Detroit River into Lake Erie.
history
A European expedition led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle , named the lake Lac Sainte-Claire on August 12, 1679 in honor of the feast day of St. Clare of Assisi . Canoe battles of the Iroquois in the so-called Beaver Wars also took place on the lake around 1687 .
Web links
- Lake St. Clair Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d great-lakes.net ( memento of the original from January 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Natural Resources Canada
- ↑ Lake Saint Clair in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
