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Images of the Great Lakes Region 
as Seen from Space

landscapes  |  cities  |  islands and bays  |  waterways

Click on any 'thumbnail' below to see a larger image.
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    Great Lakes landscapes

   the Great Lakes (61 kb)    The Five Great LakesLakes Michigan and Superior (19 kb)    Great Lakes region at night (composite image from NOAA weather satellites) (37 kb)    Lake Superior, winter (28 kb)

western Lake Superior (33 kb)northern Minnesota, looking west (33 kb)Bayfield Peninsula Keweenaw Peninsula and Keweenaw Bay, Lake Superior - the large island at the top is Isle Royale (45 kb)        Michigan's forested Huron Mountains area along Lake Superior (40 kb)   

Lakes Huron and Michigan (looking south)Lake Michigan, looking northeast, winter (29 kb)     Michigan's Lower Peninsula in winter (28 kb)    southern Lake Michigan at Night (31 kb)   

Winter view -- from Mississippi River to Michigan (41 kb)Wisconsin, winter (29 kb)    southern end of Lake Michigan, looking southeast toward Indiana (28 kb)    Northeastern coast of Wisconsin (41 kb)    Wisconsin's Lake Winnebago (39 kb)

Michigan's Upper Peninsula, winter (23 kb)    eastern Upper Peninsula, from Au Sable Point and Grand Sable Dunes to 'the Soo' - click for a pic of the dunes (53 kb)    Lake Huron and Georgian Bay (20 kb)   Manitoulin Island and Lake Huron's North Channel (31 kb)    Michigan's 'thumb' (26 kb)

  'little' Lake St. Clair (52 kb)     western Lake Erie (35 kb)    central Lake Erie, featuring Pointe aux Pins (45 kb)    ice floe pile-up at the east end of Lake Erie (44 kb)

The Eastern Great Lakes (Erie and Ontario)  Lakes Erie and Ontario, looking west, winter (45 kb)    Lake Ontario, looking east (41 kb)    eastern end of Lake Ontario and New York's Finger Lakes (28 kb)

 

 

Great Lakes cities

Buffalo, New York, and Niagara River, looking south (70 kb)    Chicago, Illinois (78 kb)    Chicago area, winter snow cover (36 kb)    Cleveland, Ohio (87 kb)     Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario

Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, at the western tip of Lake Superior    Erie, Pennsylvania, and Presque Isle (38 kb)    East Chicago, Hammond and Gary, Indiana (63 kb)    Gary, Indiana (44 kb)    Green Bay, Wisconsin (56 kb)

the twin cities of Marinette, Wisconsin, and Menominee, Michigan, on the west shore of Green Bay, Lake Michigan (29 kb)    infrared image of Marquette, Michigan, on the north shore of the U.P. (36 kb)    Milwaukee, Wisconsin (44 kb)    Montreal, Quebec, Canada (42 kb)

Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin (21 kb)    Thunder Bay, Ontario, on Lake Superior (34 kb)    infrared image of the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Ontario, on the St. Marys River (71 kb)

 

 

Great Lakes islands and bays

 Apostle Islands and Chequemegon Bay, Lake Superior (32 kb)Isle Royale - click on it for a sea-level view (26 kb) Thunder Bay, Lake Superior (38 kb)    Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior (33 kb)   

Manitou Islands & Sleeping Bear Dunes, Lake Michigan (Michigan) Lake Huron's Thunder Bay and Alpena, Michigan (38 kb)Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron (44 kb)Green Bay-LandSat 2000 image

Grand Traverse Bay and Green Bay, Lake Michigan, looking southwest (42 kb)    infrared image of Little Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan (44 kb)    Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan (45 kb)    Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie (33 kb)

 

 

Great Lakes connecting waterways

    St. Marys River between Lake Superior and Lake Huron   De Tour Passage connecting St. Marys River and North Channel with northern Lake Huron (27 kb)   dizzying photo of Straits of Mackinac between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, winter (28kb)    Straits of Mackinac and Mackinac Island (the bigger island is Bois Blanc) click for a pic of 'Mac Island' (34 kb)    infrared image of the Straits of Mackinac, showing the 5-mile-long "Mighty Mac" bridge - click on it for a pic of it! (39 kb)

the Lake Huron-Lake Erie waterway (37 kb)    the Detroit River and metro area, showing the flow of sediment into Lake Erie (48 kb)     the Niagara River flows north from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. Can you make out Niagara Falls? Click to see it! (60 kb)    connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean: the St. Lawrence River at Montreal, winter (34 kb)    Mouth of the St. Lawrence River, tidewater section 100 miles east of Montreal near New Brunswick, Canada (45 kb)

 

 

New! We also invite you to visit
 MODIS Satellite Imagery of Wisconsin
(including Lakes Michigan and Superior)
These satellite images (new ones added daily!) are received and processed on-site by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites.
 

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'Gifts of the Glaciers' homepage | text-only version

clickable map of the Great Lakes Basin | Lake Superior | Lake Michigan | Lake Huron | Lake Erie | Lake Ontario


We welcome your comments, questions and suggestions!

 

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© 1999, 2000 University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute
created July 1999 by Stephen Wittman

all space photos from the NASA JSC Digital Image Collection and 'Earth from Space'  Web sites

'Great Lakes region at night' image cropped from 'The USA at Night' 
by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

ground-level photos of Grand Sable Dunes, Niagara Falls, Isle Royale, and 'Mighty Mac' from "Visualizing the Great Lakes: Images of a Region," 
Minnesota Sea Grant and the USEPA Great Lakes National Program Office

last updated 28 July 2005 by wittman

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