The One Minute Geographer: Two Islands, Two Different Worlds
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5 min readApr 21, 2024
Isle Royale and Drummond Island are both in northern Michigan but they are on different lakes and they are different worlds. Isle Royale, 45 miles long and five or so miles wide, is in the northwest corner of Lake Superior, just east of the ‘nose’ of Minnesota. Drummond Island, a bit smaller in area, is a projection of the Upper Michigan peninsula into the northwest corner of Lake…