Re: miles of coast
Mattttt25... The Chesapeake has about 3500 miles of shoreline if memory serves correctly. Obviously, all of these statistics ignore fresh water shoreline... Michigan is literally two peninsulas... I know it has more lighthouses than any other state.<br /><br />Think fresh water is for wimps? The 729 foot long by 75 foot wide Edmund Fitzgerald, weighing 16,632 tons empty (and more than 42,000 tons when loaded with taconite ore), large enough to stow the Statue of Liberty in her hold, went down instantly in a November 1975 storm on Lake Superior. All 29 men were lost. She is the most famous of the Great Lake shipwrecks due largely to Gordon Lightfoots song. But consider the lesser known losses on the lakes due to storms
<br /><br />11/11/1913: 254 lost souls on a combined 18 shipwrecks<br /><br />11/11-13/1940: 57 dead sailors from 3 ships lost to Lake Michigan<br /><br />11/18/1958: 33 of 35 men lost on Lake Michigan when the 623 foot Carl D. Bradley splits in two, and is now lying in 360 feet of water<br /><br />11/29/1966: Daniel J. Morrell, at 582 feet, breaks up on Lake Huron, killing 28 of 29 crewmembers<br /><br />November is a tough month on the Great Lakes
<br /><br />edit: rabbit- i just looked at your numbers again. they seem way high? over 3K miles of coastland for maine? farther than the distance to drive across the country? maybe someone can figure this out...
