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Great Lakes
plural noun
- a series of five lakes between the United States and Canada, comprising Lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior; connected with the Atlantic Ocean by the St. Lawrence River.
Great Lakes
plural noun
- a group of five lakes in central North America with connecting waterways: the largest group of lakes in the world: consists of Lakes Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, which are divided by the border between the US and Canada and Lake Michigan, which is wholly in the US; constitutes the most important system of inland waterways in the world, discharging through the St Lawrence into the Atlantic. Total length: 3767 km (2340 miles). Area: 246Â 490 sq km (95Â 170 sq miles)
Great Lakes
- Group of five large freshwater bodies in central North America . They include, west to east, Lake Superior , Lake Michigan , Lake Huron , Lake Erie , and Lake Ontario . Except for Lake Michigan, which is entirely within the United States, the Great Lakes serve as borders between the United States and Canada .
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Grown primarily around the Great Lakes, wild rice has long been a staple in the region, primarily amongst the Indigenous communities in the Midwestern US and Canada.
Gas prices are also likely to rise, particularly in the Great Lakes and Rocky Mountain West, which depend on Canadian oil.
NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Labratory posted on X that it would be ending its public communication services “due to a reduction in staff.â€
Gas prices may also rise, especially in the Great Lakes and Rocky Mountain West, which depend on Canadian oil.
"It is President Kagame's way of exerting power over who is in charge of North Kivu," said the Great Lakes expert.
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