Why the Great Lakes Are So Great 🤯 #GreatLakes #USA #Canada

Why are the Great Lakes so great? 🌊 Located along the border between the U.S. and Canada, Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario hold around 20% of the surface freshwater on Earth. That’s almost 23 quadrillion liters! Spread across all the land on Earth, it would create a layer about 15 centimeters thick💧Lake Superior alone is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area. It’s almost the size of Austria and larger than Czechia, Ireland and Panama. The Great Lakes are often called inland seas because they look more like open oceans than lakes. Storms can produce waves nearly 9 meters high and have turned some areas into ship graveyards 🌊 Around 350 ships have sunk in Lake Superior alone, including the legendary Edmund Fitzgerald. 🚢 Connected by rivers and straits, the five Great Lakes form one enormous water system that flows into the Atlantic Ocean. They provide fresh water to 40 million people and are home to nearly 4,000 species of plants and animals 🌎 #greatlakes #lakesuperior #lakemichigan #lakehuron #lakeerie #lakeontario #usa #canada #states #uscanadaborder #northamerica #inlandseas #largestlake #shipgraveyard #shipwrecks #edmundfitzgerald #atlanticocean #history #geography #maps #learn