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

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

Category: Isle Royale National Park

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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.

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

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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.