Lake Huron is the second largest Great Lake by surface area and the fifth largest freshwater lake in the world. It has the longest shoreline of the Great Lakes, counting the shorelines of its 30,000 islands.

Manitoulin Island is the largest freshwater island in the world. Georgian Bay and Saginaw Bay are the two largest bays on the Great Lakes.

Since its French discoverers knew nothing as yet of the other lakes, they called it La Mer Douce, the sweet or fresh-water sea. A Sanson map in 1656 refers to the lake as Karegnondi.

Lake Huron was generally labeled "Lac des Hurons" (Lake of the Huron Indians) on most early maps.

Related links:

• Wikipedia link

• Lake Huron Water Temperature
  www.coastwatch.msu.edu/huron/h.html
  

• Marine Weather Forecast
  www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/marine/forecast_e.html?mapID=10&siteID=07605

• Weather Radar (Exeter)
  www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html?id=wso

• Level News (Environment Canada)
  www.on.ec.gc.ca/water/level-news/intro-e.html

• Water Levels Bulletin (Canadian Hydrographic Service)
  www.waterlevels.gc.ca/C&A/bulletin_e.html

• Also see:
  lakehuron.ca/index.php?page=links

References:

• Great Lakes Atlas, Environment Canada and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1995.