The Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River superimposed on a map of Europe
âŠOH.
I googled it once and the only reason why the Great Lakes arenât called inland seas is because they are entirely freshwater, not salt.
By any other metric theyâd be seas. Superior especially (the big one in the upper left) behaves like a small ocean, and has claimed at least 250 ships and over 1000 people. Gordon Lightfoot wrote a frankly chilling song about her that Iâll include here:
Lake Michigan has never fully frozen. Leading to some absolutely terrifying images
Layers of ice created, shattered, and built up like this.
Hey, hereâs a picture of that lighthouse in 2015, when we had a polar vortex
I love the Great Lakes, you know how all boats look like shit, like just rusty hulks, you donât get that on the Great Lakes because itâs fresh water, like the shipwrecks are incredibly well preserved
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