We go up to Superior on occasion and one of the places we go has facts on their placemats. I believe these are the facts.
1. Lake Superior contains 10% of the planet's fresh surface water.
2. It covers 31,700 sq mi with an average depth of 147 meters or 483 feet.
3. The deepest point in the lake is 405 meters or 1,333 feet.
4. There have been about 350 shipwrecks recorded in Lake Superior and Lake Superior is known to never give up her dead. Over 10,000 lives have been lost in her waters.
5. Lake Superior is, by surface area, the largest lake in the world.
6. It contains as much water as all the other Great Lakes combined, plus three extra Lake Eries!
7. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America with water one foot deep.
8. There are 78 different species of fish that call the big lake home.
9. The maximum wave ever recorded on Lake Superior was 9.45 meters or 31 feet high.
10. If you stretched the shoreline of Lake Superior out to a straight line, it would be long enough to reach from Duluth, Minnesota to the Bahamas.
Cool fun fact!