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Lake Huron features the longest shoreline of any freshwater lake

Including its 30,000 islands, Lake Huron coastline extends for 6,157 kilometres.

Shared by Michigan in the US and Ontario in Canada, Lake Huron is the second largest Great Lake by surface area. Manitoulin Island located within Lake Huron is the world's largest freshwater island, itself containing over one hundred freshwater lakes. The lake connects directly to Lake Michigan through the Straits of Mackinac.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Including its 30,000 islands, Lake Huron coastline extends for 6,157 kilometres. The figure is taken from USGS, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a world geography fact?: Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.