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Superior Lake (other)
Superior Lake may refer to: * Lake Superior, one of the Great Lakes * Superior Lake (California) Superior Lake is a dry lake basin in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, north of Barstow. The lake is made up of three basins, approximately long and at its widest point. Through the Holocene The Holocene ( ) is the ... See also * Lake Superior (other) {{disambiguation ...
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Lake Superior
Lake Superior in central North America is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface areaThe Caspian Sea is the largest lake, but is saline, not freshwater. and the third-largest by volume, holding 10% of the world's surface fresh water. The northern and westernmost of the Great Lakes of North America, it straddles the Canada–United States border with the province of Ontario to the north and east, and the states of Minnesota to the northwest and Wisconsin and Michigan to the south. It drains into Lake Huron via St. Marys River, then through the lower Great Lakes to the St. Lawrence River and 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". Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote this name as "Gitche Gumee" in the poem ''The Song of Hiawatha'', as did Gordon Lightfoot in his song " The Wreck of the ''Edmund Fitzgerald''". According to oth ...
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Superior Lake (California)
Superior Lake is a dry lake basin in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, north of Barstow. The lake is made up of three basins, approximately long and at its widest point. Through the Holocene, this three-lake system was one body of water. See also * List of lakes in California There are more than 3,000 named lakes, reservoirs, and dry lakes in the U.S. state of California. Largest lakes In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline. It occupies ... References * External links * Endorheic lakes of California Lakes of the Mojave Desert Lakes of San Bernardino County, California Lakes of California Lakes of Southern California {{SanBernardinoCountyCA-geo-stub ...
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