Isle Royale National Park is a U. S. National Park in the state of Michigan.

Isle Royale, the largest island in Lake Superior, is over 45 miles ( 72 km ) in length and 9 miles ( 14 km ) wide at its widest point.

The park is made of Isle Royale itself and approximately 400 smaller islands, along with any submerged lands within 4. 5 miles ( 7. 24 km ) of the surrounding islands ( 16USC408g ).

Because numerous small islands surround Isle Royale, ships were once guided through the area by lighthouses at Passage Island, Rock Harbor, Rock of Ages, and Isle Royale Lighthouse on Menagerie Island.

Within the waters of Isle Royale National Park are several shipwrecks.

Moose swimming at Isle Royale. Isle Royale National Park is known for its wolf and moose populations which are studied by scientists investigating predator-prey relationships in a closed environment.

This is made easier because Isle Royale has been colonized by roughly just one third of the mainland mammal species, due to it being so remote.

Isle Royale greenstone ( chlorastrolite, a form of pumpellyite ) is found here, as well as on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Detailed map of Isle Royale National Park

Bedrock on Isle Royale is basalt or sandstone and conglomerates on the 1100 million year old Midcontinent Rift.

Isle Royale is quite popular with day-trippers with day trip service provided from Grand Portage, MN and Copper Harbor, MI to and from the park.

The Isle Royale Queen out of Copper Harbor, Michigan, arrives at the park in 3-3 1 / 2 hours and the Sea Hunter, out of Grand Portage, Minnesota, arrives in just 1 1 / 2 hours and operate round-trips and offer day trips through much of the season, less frequently in early summer and autumn.

Isle Royale had 15, 973 visitors in 2007, making it the least-visited national park in the continental United States ; and the fifth-least visited overall.

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Fair Isle was bought by the National Trust for Scotland in 1954 from George Waterston, the founder of the bird observatory.

It was laid in 1999 between Blackpool and Douglas as part of the Isle of Man to England Interconnector which connects the Manx electricity system to the UK's National Grid.

In 1996 the Isle of Man Government obtained permission to use the. im National Top Level Domain ( TLD ) and has ultimate responsibility for its use.

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Examples include the Burren in Co. Clare, Ireland ; the Verdon Gorge in France ; Malham Cove in North Yorkshire and the Isle of Wight, England ; on Fårö near the Swedish island of Gotland, the Niagara Escarpment in Canada / United States, Notch Peak in Utah, the Ha Long Bay National Park in Vietnam and the hills around the Lijiang River and Guilin city in China.

Shetland is a National Scenic Area, although unusually this single designated area is made up of a number of discrete locations: Fair Isle, Foula, South West Mainland ( including the Scalloway Islands ), Muckle Roe, Esha Ness, Fethaland and Herma Ness.

Recently restored by the National Trust, it looks as it did in January 1901, when Marconi received the distance record signals of from his transmitter station at Niton, Isle of Wight.

It is bordered by and forms a part of the character of a number of nationally important protected landscapes including the New Forest National Park, and the Isle of Wight AONB.

One of the world's best-studied predator – prey relationships is the moose and wolf population of Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior.

In total, Acadia National Park consists of more than 47, 000 acres ( 73 square miles, 190 km < sup > 2 </ sup >), including 30, 300 acres ( 47 sq mi., 123 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) on Mount Desert Island, 2, 728 acres ( 4. 6 sq mi., 11 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) on Isle au Haut and 2, 366 acres ( 3. 5 sq mi., 9. 2 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) on the Schoodic Peninsula.

The Canadian Wildlife Service maintains a number of National Wildlife Areas in the Bay of Fundy including a proposed designation of Isle Haute in the middle of the Bay.

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Isle of Wight County, Virginia

* Isle Royale National Park

* Isle of Man — Manx National Heritage

* Data for the Sea Isle City School, National Center for Education Statistics

Popular river destinations in the city of Detroit include the Detroit International Riverfront and Belle Isle Park — both of which host a number of events throughout the year.

In Michigan, there are two bridges connecting the mainland to Grosse Ile and the MacArthur Bridge, popularly known as the " Belle Isle Bridge ," that connects the City of Detroit to Belle Isle Park.

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At, Grand Isle State Park contains camping facilities, a sand volleyball court, a nature walk trail, a horseshoe pit and a play area.

Over the summer of 2010, Roxy Music headlined at various festivals across the world, including Lovebox at London's Victoria Park, Electric Picnic in Stradbally, Co. Laois, Ireland, and Bestival on the Isle of Wight.

** The Islands, an unrecognized sub-region includes all of the whisky-producing islands ( but excludes Islay ): Arran, Jura, Mull, Orkney and Skye — with their respective distilleries: Arran, Isle of Jura, Tobermory, Highland Park and Scapa, and Talisker.

Salt marsh near Lepe Country Park, with the Isle of Wight in the distance

Other projects that Olmsted has been involved in include the country's first and oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York ; the country's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York ; one of the first planned communities in the United States, Riverside, Illinois ; Mount Royal Park in Montreal, Quebec ; the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts ; the Emerald Necklace of parks in Rochester, New York ; Belle Isle Park, in the Detroit River for Detroit, Michigan ; Presque Isle Park in Marquette, Michigan ; the Grand Necklace of Parks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Cherokee Park and entire parks and parkway system in Louisville, Kentucky ; the Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts, featuring America's first public " wading pool "; the George Washington Vanderbilt II Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina ; the master plans for the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University near Palo Alto, California ; and Montebello Park in St. Catharines, Ontario.