InfoSuperior - February 15, 2019

February 15, 2019

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Photo: Thank you Harold Harkonen. Chunks of ice rise onto the Black Bay shoreline in the Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area at Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, near Finlay Bay, February, 2019. Harold notes that "most winters the lake freezes over here quite late (if at all) and large waves coat the shoreline with ice formations and ice piles."

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