Lake Superior and the Apostle Islands

How many Great Lake are there? What are their names?

How big is Lake Superior? (depth, volume, surface area)

Where is Lake Superior? How far away is it from Minneapolis?

How many islands are in Lake Superior? What are their names?

Where are the Apostle Islands?

How many Apostle Islands are there? What are their names?

Where is Sand Island?

Don and Bill's crossing

Where is the Keewenaw pennisula?

Where is Stannard Rock Lighthouse? Caribou Islet Lighthouse? Agawa Bay?

Places to look for answers:

Great Lakes Information Network

Apostle Islands National Lakeshore

BITA: Crossing Lake Superior by Kayak

What is geography? What is geology? Why do people confuse the two subjects?

What is cartography?

How are geography and cartography related?

How do we use geography and cartography?

How are maps made?

What is a survey? How is it done?

What is a projection? What is a Mercator projection? Who was Mercator?

What Do Maps Show?

History of Mapmaking

Map Projections