Lake Superior Now Home to World's Largest Freshwater Marine Park
Boundaries of the Lake Superior NMCA.
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More than 10,000 square kilometres of Lake Superior, including the lakebed, islands, and north shorelands are now protected within the Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area.
The park, announced in late October, extends from Thunder Cape at the tip of Sleeping Giant Provincial Park in the west, to Bottle Point just east of Terrace Bay, and south to the Canada-U.S. boundary.
The announcement follows ten years of effort to local residents, First Nations, and the provincial and federal governments to establish a vision for the park.
The park creates a link to the Isle Royale National Park in the United Sates, which extends to cover the lake and is well-known for its isolated population of wolves. The northern boundary of the park is also a central hub of provincially protected lands and waters that include the Nipigon River and Lake Nipigon, and the Wabakimi Wilderness Park. Together, this system of protected areas provide safe homes for endangered caribou and trout, peregrine falcons, eagles, whitefish and walleye.
The Lake Superior park will become Canada's third marine conservation area, all of which are located within the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin. It joins Fathom Five National Marine Park at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula in Lake Huron and the The Saguenay St. Lawrence Marine Park at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River.
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