Great Lakes
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Five interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border.
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Great Lakes
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The Great Lakes are five large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario. They are the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total area and contain more than 20% of the world's surface fresh water by volume. Formed as ice sheets retreated around 14,000 years ago, they support transportation, trade, fishing and aquatic habitats.
- Lakes
- Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario
- Countries
- Canada and the United States
- Primary drainage outflow
- Saint Lawrence River
Sources and credits
Sources and credits
- Article
- Great Lakes (English Wikipedia)
- Wikidata
- Q7347
- Text
- Card text is adapted from the English Wikipedia article by an automated summary. Wikipedia content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for its contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Article history and contributors
- Illustration
- By NASA. Public domain · File page on Wikimedia CommonsNASA, http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=45615Modifications: Resized and converted to WebP
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