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 ).

Isle Royale National Park was established on April 3, 1940, was designated as a Wilderness Area in 1976, and was made an International Biosphere Reserve in 1980.

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.

* Official site: Isle Royale National Park

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Pytheas says that the Gutones, a people of Germany, inhabit the shores of an estuary of the Ocean called Mentonomon, their territory extending a distance of six thousand stadia ; that, at one day's sail from this territory, is the Isle of Abalus, upon the shores of which, amber is thrown up by the waves in spring, it being an excretion of the sea in a concrete form ; as, also, that the inhabitants use this amber by way of fuel, and sell it to their neighbors, the Teutones.

The Bishop of Sodor and Man, whose diocese lies outside of the United Kingdom, is an ex officio member of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man.

Noteworthy, too, is St. Mildred's Priory, Isle of Thanet, Kent, built in 1027 on the site of an Abbey founded in 670 by the daughter of the first Christian King of Kent.

Beltane regained popularity during the Celtic Revival and is still observed as a cultural festival by some in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man and among their diasporas.

Cerdic's landing, whenever it is to be dated, seems to have been near the Isle of Wight, and the annals record the conquest of the island in 530.

These records are in direct conflict with Bede, who states that the Isle of Wight was settled by Jutes, not Saxons ; the archaeological record is somewhat in favour of Bede on this.

Belle Isle, in the northern section of the river, is entirely used as a Detroit city park, and is open to the public via a bridge connection with the city.

The song " The New Ground-Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears ", on the 2010 album Songs from the Heart by the group Celtic Woman, is about Annie Moore and Ellis Island.

Among the many race victories of his early desmo twin, the 1978 legendary return of Mike Hailwood at the Isle of Man is perhaps the most memorable.

Fair Isle ( from Old Norse Frjóey ; Scottish Gaelic Fara ) is an island in northern Scotland, lying around halfway between mainland Shetland and the Orkney islands.

Fair Isle is the most remote inhabited island in the United Kingdom.

This is especially pronounced due to its location far from any sizeable landmass-Fair Isle has the smallest overall temperature range ( least continental ) of any Weather Station in the British Isles-an absolute maximum of and an absolute minimum of since 1951.

The island is home to an endemic subspecies of Eurasian Wren, the Fair Isle Wren Troglodytes troglodytes fridariensis.

Fair Isle has been occupied since the Bronze Age which is remarkable because of the lack of raw materials on the island, although it is surrounded by rich fishing waters.

Fair Isle is also famous for its woollen jumpers, with knitting forming an important source of income for the women of the islands.

As Fair Isle is not connected to the national grid, electricity is provided by the Fair Isle Electricity Company.

Fair Isle is home to two GSM 900 MHz base stations operated by Vodafone and Telefonica O2

Grenada, known as the Spice Isle because of its production of nutmeg and mace, is the largest at 310 square kilometers, or about the size of Detroit.

* The main meeting area of the Student Center is called Skye Lounge after the Isle of Skye.

Douglas, the largest town on the Isle of Man is its capital and seat of government, where the Government offices and the parliament chambers ( Tynwald ) are located.

The largest and most populous are Arran and Bute, and Great Cumbrae and Holy Isle are also served by dedicated ferry routes.

The uninhabited islands include Mousa, known for the Broch of Mousa, the finest preserved example in Scotland of these Iron Age round towers, St Ninian's Isle connected to Mainland by the largest active tombolo in the UK, and Out Stack, the northernmost point of the British Isles.

It is ranked as the fourth longest and fourth largest island in the contiguous United States, behind Padre Island, Texas ( the world's longest barrier island ); Long Island ( a fact disputed by residents ); and Isle Royale, Michigan.

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The largest island outside the main island is the Isla de la Juventud ( Isle of Youth ) in the southwest, with an area of.

The neighboring communities Southampton County, Isle of Wight County and the City of Suffolk are all ranked in the top 20 most profitable farming counties, with Southampton County being the 8th largest in the state.

The Isle of Dogs is a former island in the East End of London that is bounded on three sides ( east, south and west ) by one of the largest meanders in the River Thames.

The Isle of Dogs is formed from the lock entrances to the former West India Docks and the largest current meander of the River Thames and the southern part of the borough forms a part of the historic flood plain of the River Thames ;< ref >< cite > BBC on Thames floodplain.

The largest island in the group is Deal Island ; the others, in order of descending size, are Erith Island, Dover Island, North East Isle, South West Isle and Judgement Rocks.

Belle Isle is the location of Lake Conway, one of Greater Orlando's largest lakes.

* Belle Isle Marsh Reservation is the largest surviving salt marsh in Boston Harbor.

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Læsø (" Isle of Hlér ") is the largest island in the North Sea bay of Kattegat, and is located off the northeast coast of the Jutland Peninsula, the Danish mainland.

Delfino Plaza is Isle Delfino's largest city and the game's main hub.

The largest of the fen-islands is the Isle of Ely, on which the cathedral city of Ely was built ; its highest point is 39 m above mean sea-level.

In the early 2000s, controversy hit the Isle of Lewis as one of Europe's largest windfarms was planned for Barvas Moor.

Cancer was diagnosed and Reid decided to sell Treasure Isle to Sonia Pottinger, widow of his friend Lenford " Lennie the King " Pottinger, and already owned High Note Records, which was one of the largest record labels on the Island.

Winthrop abuts the largest salt marsh in Boston Harbor, the Belle Isle Marsh Reservation.

By far the largest is the privately owned Belle Isle () opposite Bowness and around a kilometre in length.

Lamlash () is the largest village by population on the Isle of Arran, in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.