25 Facts About Lake Huron

1. Lake Huron is the second largest among the Great Lakes, and the fifth largest in the world.

2. Lake Huron is part of the St Lawrence Seaway, and it supports heavy traffic in grain, iron ore and limestone.

3. Lake Huron is the final home for more than 1,000 shipwrecks.

4. Lake Huron was hit the hardest by the storm among all of the Great Lakes, with most shipwrecks happening on the southern and western sections of the lake.

5. Lake Huron was the first among the Great Lakes to be discovered by early European explorers in the region.

6. Lake Huron was formed similarly to the other Great Lakes, by melting ice from the continental glaciers which retread at the end of the last ice age.

7. Lake Huron has 30,000 islands, and if their shores are taken into consideration, Lake Huron has the greatest shore length among all the Great Lakes.

8. Lake Huron has a large bay called the Georgian Bay on its Canadian side.

9. Lake Huron is hydrologically the eastern section of Lake Michigan-Huron.

10. Lake Huron is the second largest Great Lake and the fifth largest freshwater lake by surface area.

11. Lake Huron is connected to Lake Michigan by the eight kilometre-wide Straits of Mackinac.

12. Lake Huron is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by surface area, covering almost 60,000 square kilometres, and the fifth-largest freshwater lake on Earth.

13. Lake Huron was hardest hit in the deadliest and most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the Great Lakes.

14. Lake Huron is connected to Lake Michigan by the eight kilometer  wide Straits of Mackinac.

15. Lake Huron has the largest shoreline length of any of the Great Lakes.

16. Lake Huron is the third largest of the Great Lakes in volume, with 850 cubic miles of water.

17. Lake Huron was hit by the worst storm ever to hit one of the Great Lakes on November 3, 1913.

18. Lake Huron is connected to Lake Michigan by the Straits of Mackinac.

19. Lake Huron was the first of the Great Lakes to be discovered by European explorers.

20. Lake Huron features some heavily forested areas, including Huron-Manistee National Forests, which boast 10,000 acres of pine, aspen and hardwood forest.

21. Lake Huron is named for the Wyandot Indians, or Hurons, who lived there.

22. Lake Huron is connected to Lake Michigan by the Straits of Mackinac and, technically, these two lakes are one lake.

23. Lake Huron is situated between the eastern shore of Michigan and Ontario, Canada, to the north.

24. Lake Huron has the largest shore line length of any of the Great Lakes, counting its 30,000 islands.

25. Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.