World Record Title: The largest freshwater lake: Lake Superior
World Record Creator: Lake Superior
World Record Holder: Lake Superior
World Record Field: The largest freshwater lake
World Record Rules: The largest freshwater lake
World Record Number: 20120500014
World Record Validity Period: Until the world record was broken.
World Record Witness: Carrying the Flag World Records certifier 008
World Records Source: World record database of Carrying the Flag
Awarding Certificate Date: May 3, 2012
World Record Details:

       The largest freshwater lake: Lake Superior. Lake Superior (Lake Superior) is the world's largest freshwater lake, in 1622 the French explorers found that the lake were taken from the French, meaning "on the lake." The lake in the United States and Canada, there is the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan are surrounded. Lake, 616 kilometers, 257 kilometers north to south at its widest point, the lake an average elevation of 180 meters, the water area of ​​82,414 square kilometers, the maximum depth of 405 meters. Storage capacity of 12,000 cubic kilometers, accounting for more than half of the Great Lakes water storage capacity in order to calculate the amount of water, the lake is the world's fourth largest lake, the world's third-largest freshwater lake. 3000 km long shoreline, coastal forested, more twists and turns north shore bays. There are nearly 200 rivers flow into the lake, and the St. Louis River in Nipigon maximum.