The One Minute Geographer: Two Islands, Two Different Worlds

The Upper Michigan Peninsula is shown at the bottom of the map. Isle Royale is in the northwest corner in Lake Superior. Drummond Island is in the southeast corner in Lake Huron. Screenshot taken by the author from Google Maps here. Red circles added by the author.

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…