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There are also several thousand smaller lakes, often called 'inland lakes', within the basin. The lakes drain a large watershed via many rivers and contain approximately 35,000 islands.

From the interior to the outlet at the Saint Lawrence River, water flows from Superior to Huron and Michigan, southward to Erie, and finally northward to Lake Ontario. As a chain of lakes and rivers, they connect the east-central interior of North America to the Atlantic Ocean. Though the five lakes lie in separate basins, they form a single, naturally interconnected body of fresh water, within the Great Lakes Basin. Left to right they are: Superior (magenta) Michigan (cyan) Huron (green) Erie (yellow) Ontario (orange-red). Ī map of the Great Lakes Basin showing the five sub-basins. The surrounding region is called the Great Lakes region, which includes the Great Lakes Megalopolis. The lakes have been a major source for transportation, migration, trade, and fishing, serving as a habitat to many aquatic species in a region with much biodiversity. The Great Lakes began to form at the end of the Last Glacial Period around 14,000 years ago, as retreating ice sheets exposed the basins they had carved into the land, which then filled with meltwater. Lake Michigan is the largest lake that is entirely within one country.

Depending on how it is measured, by surface area, either Lake Superior or Lake Michigan-Huron is the second-largest lake in the world and the largest freshwater lake. Because of their sea-like characteristics, such as rolling waves, sustained winds, strong currents, great depths, and distant horizons, the five Great Lakes have long been called inland seas. The total surface is 94,250 square miles (244,106 km 2), and the total volume (measured at the low water datum) is 5,439 cubic miles (22,671 km 3), slightly less than the volume of Lake Baikal (5,666 cu mi or 23,615 km 3, 22–23% of the world's surface fresh water). The Great Lakes are the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total area and are second-largest by total volume, containing 21% of the world's surface fresh water by volume. The Great Lakes Waterway enables modern travel and shipping by water among the lakes. Hydrologically, lakes Michigan and Huron are a single body joined at the Straits of Mackinac. They are Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario and are in general on or near the Canada–United States border.

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Among the animals it is credited with saving are icons such as the bald eagle, brown pelican, gray wolf and American alligator, but only 3% of species listed ever recover sufficiently to be removed from the list.The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America or the Laurentian Great Lakes, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes with certain sea-like characteristics in the mid-east region of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River. The Endangered Species Act, which mandates listing of species that are endangered and taking steps to preserve them, has been a model for conservationists around the world. The newly extinct species are the casualties of climate change and habitat destruction, dying out sooner than any new protections can save them. Among these is the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, known as the Good Lord Bird because anyone lucky enough to catch sight of the large beautiful bird blurted out the Lord’s name.Īlso now extinct are ten species of birds and bats found in the Pacific islands and several species of fresh water mussels found in the Eastern U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service removed 23 species from the Endangered List because, despite efforts to save them, they have become extinct.

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