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Minnesota Point, or Park Point, is a long, narrow peninsula that extends out from the Canal Park area of Duluth, Minnesota, USA and separating Lake Superior from Superior Bay. Minnesota Point is approximately 7 miles in length, and when included with Wisconsin Point, which extends 3 miles out from Superior, Wisconsin, ...
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Perfectly positioned at the westernmost tip of sparkling blue Lake Superior, Duluth offers visitors a true escape from the stresses of everyday life and an opportunity to enjoy nature. You can opt for a more leisurely pace: spending time at one of the city's 23 beautiful parks, taking an unhurried drive along the sceni...
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Duluth was originally settled by Sioux (Dakota) and Chippewa (Ojibwa). It was claimed for France in 1679 by Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut. It was also once home to more millionaires (per capita) than any other city in the world. It's population is 87,000 and within 30-mile radius,the population is 184,134. Duluth i...
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This is the same location as gigapan.org/gigapans/53872/ but while photographing an ore boat arrived. The distortion was caused by the boat movement and the bridge starting to lower as the boat passed by.
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The bridge spans a small canal which was put through the thin but long sand bar named Minnesota Point in 1870–71. In 1905 a suspended gondola with a capacity of 350 people plus wagons, streetcars, or automobiles made the trip across the canal taking about one minute and ran every five minutes during busy times of th...
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Silver Bay is on the North Shore of Lake Superior. This marina has 108 slips for boats up to 60' long. In 1946 Reserve Mining Company started building a taconite processing plant here and the town of Silver Bay was founded in 1954. Silver Bay's population dropped from 2,917 in 1980 to 1,894 in 1990 as people left fo...
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Oberg Mountain - Near Tofte/Lutsen Minnesota. Over 360degree view. The tree on the left is the tree on the far right. Lake superior is also in the shot, but it is almost entirely covered by clouds except the shore. 24 Images stitched together with Adobe Photoshop CS5. Retouched in Adobe Lightroom 2.
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Iron ore shipments on Lake Superior demanded a new lighthouse on the lake's inhospitable North Shore in the early 1900's. A storm on Nov. 28, 1905, damaged 29 ships. Two of these carriers foundered on this rocky coastline, which some called "the most dangerous piece of water in the world." In early 1907, Congress ap...
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Shipwrecks from a 1905 November gale prompted this lighthouse construction. Completed in 1910 and now 100 years old, Split Rock Light Station is one of Minnesota's best known landmarks. The lighthouse offers a glimpse of lighthouse life in this remote and spectacular setting in the 1920's.
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Another view of this island in the Split Rock Lighthouse State Park.
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