Great Lakes
a series of five lakes between the United States and Canada, comprising Lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior; connected with the Atlantic Ocean by the St. Lawrence River.
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How to use Great Lakes in a sentence
Hester has several programs underway, including one to monitor wild rice habitats and avian flocks in the Kakagon Sloughs, a Great Lakes conservation area managed by the Ojibwa people.
The Brilliant 10: The most innovative up-and-coming minds in science | Bill Gourgey | September 20, 2021 | Popular-ScienceFew Great Lakes landscapes impress like the 32,557-acre Sleeping Bear Dunes Wilderness, where soaring gold dunes spill into cerulean waters for a scene that looks much more Caribbean than Lake Michigan.
The pattern could also spark severe thunderstorms, perhaps packing strong winds, that could roll through the northern Great Lakes and New England during late July and August.
Coast-to-coast heat dome to deliver sweltering weather next week | Matthew Cappucci | July 22, 2021 | Washington PostThere’s the shade from a grove of massive oak trees, the view of Lake Erie from the campground’s perch atop a 40-foot-high limestone bluff, as well as a swimming beach and boat launch, all wrapped up in classic Great Lakes wilderness.
They wanted to move it to a bigger lake in Fairfax County, where they hoped it would take off and fly to breeding grounds in the Great Lakes area or New England.
How a group of strangers came together to rescue a lonely loon on a small lake in Virginia | Dana Hedgpeth | May 28, 2021 | Washington Post
The Great Lakes states, for example, boast the largest concentration of engineering jobs (more than 318,000) of any major region.
The Rustbelt Roars Back From the Dead | Joel Kotkin, Richey Piiparinen | December 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Plains, and Far West, secession sympathizers top out at 22 percent of the population.
Perhaps more surprising is the high aspirational ranking of some old Rust Belt and Great Lakes cities.
Hot U.S. Cities That Offer Both Jobs and Culture Are Mostly Southern and Modest Sized | Joel Kotkin, Wendell Cox | July 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt's disconcerting to see my once Calvinist home town rebrand itself as the Dubai of the Great Lakes.
Why are these tug-boaters risking their lives on the Great Lakes?
What Ontario lacks in salt water navigation is, however, made up by the busy traffic of the Great Lakes.
But may be referred to as containing the first notice published by the French of the Great Lakes.
The Indian in his Wigwam | Henry R. SchoolcraftThe Great Lakes are, however, very extraordinary in their way.
Canada and the Canadians | Sir Richard Henry BonnycastleIn this instance the lads were to become sailors on the inland seas, known as the Great Lakes.
The Iron Boys on the Ore Boats | James R. MearsThe country west of the Great Lakes did not share in this flood of settlement, except for one tragic interlude.
The Canadian Dominion | Oscar D. Skelton
British Dictionary definitions for Great Lakes
a group of five lakes in central North America with connecting waterways: the largest group of lakes in the world: consists of Lakes Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, which are divided by the border between the US and Canada and Lake Michigan, which is wholly in the US; constitutes the most important system of inland waterways in the world, discharging through the St Lawrence into the Atlantic. Total length: 3767 km (2340 miles). Area: 246 490 sq km (95 170 sq miles)
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Cultural definitions for Great Lakes
Group of five large freshwater bodies in central North America. They include, west to east, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario. Except for Lake Michigan, which is entirely within the United States, the Great Lakes serve as borders between the United States and Canada.
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