Lake Superior

The amazing Great Lakes are joined in a vast, continuously flowing waterway system that links the massive bodies of water through a series of channels, ultimately draining into the Atlantic Ocean. This system holds about one-fifth of the planet's fresh water and hosts some of the world's most voluminous lakes. The lakesthemselves are so large that they are visible from space. Amazing forces of time and geological activity formed these fresh-water seas, beginning with a land fracture and successive periods of lava flow about one billion years ago. Despite the region's great age, however, lakes Superior, Ontario, Michigan, Huron, and Erie are actually relatively young geological features. Though 5 million years of glaciation honed the landforms and eventually filled these basins with water, the lakes have only existed in their present state for about 8,000 to 10,000 years. Today, the Great Lakes are estimated to hold 6 quadrillion gallonsof water. Their shared surface area exceeds 243,000 square kilometres. Fascinatingly, the Great Lakes region is still undergoing dynamic changes as the land continues to rebound from the incredible weight of the glaciers that covered it several thousand years ago. In the region north-east of Lake Superior, for instance, this rebound is happening at a rate of more than 53 centimetres per century.

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This coin is the first issue of the Great Lakes collection.
The first coin of the series, released in November 2013, depicts the Lake Superior.
The second coin of the series, released in March 2014, depicts the Lake Ontario.
The third coin of the series, released in June 2014, depicts the Lake Erie.
The fourth coin of the series, released in October 2014, depicts the Lake Michigan.
The fifth and the last coin of the series, released in February 2015, depicts the Lake Huron.
 

THE GREAT LAKES - LAKE SUPERIOR - 2014 CANADIAN COINS 01 is categorised COINS AND PAPER MONEY / 08- ROYAL CANADIAN MINT / 10- FLORA, FAUNA & NATURE and sold by l'Imaginaire, a store and specialised website.