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Cleanups planned for Coastweeks
The News-Messenger (9/2)
Ohio's 2008 Coastweeks observance will again focus on the preservation and protection of Lake Erie and its watershed through a variety of cleanup events along the shoreline and throughout its watershed.
Maritime Academy may hike maritime tuition up to 57%
Traverse City Record-Eagle (8/27)
Some of next year's students at the Great Lakes Maritime Academy could face tuition rate hikes of 50 percent or more.
Students build wind turbines
WTVG-TV Toledo (8/27)
Science students at Clay high school will soon have a way to measure the wind and how much power it can produce. This grant-funded project will provide data on how well turbines produce power in the changeable wind environment near the lake.
What's going on in your neighborhood this month? Meet other people and learn together at recreational and educational events! Our new dynamic calendar is updated daily with current educational events.
Is Lake Superior the largest lake in the world?
from Dulce in Denver, Colorado
Lakes are measured in many different ways, such as in volume and surface area. For example, a shallow lake can have a large surface area but a small volume.
In terms of surface area, Lake Superior is the second largest lake in the world and the first largest freshwater lake in the world! The saltwater Caspian Sea is the world's largest lake in surface area. (A lake is any body of water surrounded by land and very large lakes are sometimes called seas.)
In terms of volume, however, Lake Baikal, located in Siberia, Russia, is the largest freshwater lake in the world. Lake Baikal's volume is 23,600 cubed km compared to Lake Superior's volume of 12,100 cubed km. Lake Baikal holds approximately 20% of the Earth's freshwater -- the same amount as the all five Great Lakes combined!
Go to the Great Lakes Facts & Figures page for more statistics on the Great Lakes.
Thank you for your question!
Answered on October 16, 2000