Lake Erie

Lake Erie is one of the five large freshwater Great Lakes in North America,
the world's largest such lakes.

It has a surface area of 24,000 km² (10,000 sq. miles), an average
depth of 19 meters (62 feet), and a retention time of 2.6 years. It contains
483 cubic kilometers of water. (For comparison, Lake Superior has an average
depth of 483 feet, a volume of 12,232 cubic km and a retention time of 191 years.)

Lake Erie is primarily fed by the Detroit River (from Lake Huron and Lake
St. Clair) and drains via the Niagara River and Niagara Falls into Lake
Ontario. Navigation downstream is provided by the Welland Canal, part of the
Great Lakes Waterway.

Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes and became famously polluted
in the 1960s and 1970s. Environmental regulation led to a great increase in
water quality; however, invasive Zebra mussels currently threaten the entire
Lake Erie ecosystem.

The American states Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York are located to the south
of Lake Erie; Michigan lies to the west, and the Canadian province of
Ontario lies to the north.

The cities of Buffalo, New York, Erie, Pennsylvania, and Cleveland, Ohio are
located on the shores of Lake Erie.

History

     1813: Battle of Lake Erie, Oliver Perry

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