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Marblehead Light (Ohio) / 41.536444°N 82.711722°W / 41.536444; -82.711722. Marblehead Lighthouse in Marblehead, Ohio, United States, is the oldest lighthouse in continuous operation on the American side of the Great Lakes. [3] [4] [5] It has guided sailors safely along the rocky shores of Marblehead Peninsula since 1822, and is an ...
The Toledo Harbor Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Lake Erie near Toledo, Ohio, in the United States. [5] The light replaced the 1837 lighthouse on Turtle Island at the mouth of the Maumee River. It is an active aid to navigation . The lighthouse is built on a 20-foot-deep (6 m) stone crib, 8.4 miles (13.5 km) from the mouth of the Maumee River ...
Camp Perry is a National Guard training facility located on the shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio near Port Clinton. In addition to its regular mission as a military training base, Camp Perry also boasts the second largest outdoor rifle range in the world after the NRA Whittington Center in Raton, New Mexico.
Lake Erie is the 11th biggest lake in the world based on surface area and has 871 miles of shoreline; Ohio has 262 miles of it. Average depth: 62 feet Maximum depth: 210 feet
Its depth is a little less than the height of Chicago's Willis Tower, by about a hundred feet or so. It also holds by far the most water of the five lakes, with 2,903 cubic miles of water. Lake ...
Lake Erie (42.2° N, 81.2W) has a mean elevation of 571 feet (174 m) [8] above sea level. It has a surface area of 9,990 square miles (25,874 km 2) [7] with a length of 241 statute miles (388 km; 209 nmi) [7] and breadth of 57 statute miles (92 km; 50 nmi) [7] at its widest points. It is the shallowest of the Great Lakes with an average depth ...
Rattlesnake Island (Lake Erie) Coordinates: 41.6791°N 82.8493°W. Location of Rattlesnake Islands in the Bass Islands. Rattlesnake Island is an 85- acre (34 ha) island located on Lake Erie near Put-In-Bay, 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Port Clinton, Ohio. It is part of Put-in-Bay Township, in Ottawa County.
U.S. Historic district. / 41.59472°N 82.70972°W / 41.59472; -82.70972. Kelleys Island is both a village in Erie County, Ohio, and the island which it fully occupies in Lake Erie. The island has a total area of 4.41 square miles (11.42 km 2) and was formed by glacial action on limestone and dolomite .