Anyone who looks at a map of Lake Superior often asks, why does Isle Royale belong to Michigan and not Minnesota or Ontario? The answer likes with Toledo, but that’s another story.
The geographic quirk of Isle Royale does help to define Michigan’s water boundaries with the state of Minnesota and the Province of Ontario and creates a true geographic quirk. Michigan’s territorial waters begin just 687 feet from the easternmost tip of Minnesota. That’s just over 1/10th of a mile in length.
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