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	Isle Royale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Isle Royale is an island of the Great Lakes, located in the northwest of Lake Superior.
		Isle Royale was once the site of a lake trout and whitefish fishery, a resort community, and unprofitable copper mines.
		Isle Royale is within about 22 miles (35 km) of the Canadian shore of the lake, near the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, and is 56 miles (90 km) from the Michigan shore, on the Keweenaw Peninsula.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isle_Royale (362 words)

	Isle Royale National Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Isle Royale National Park was established on April 3, 1940, was designated as a Wilderness Area in 1976, and was made an International Biosphere Reserve in 1981.
		Isle Royale National Park is known for its wolf and moose populations which are studied by scientists investigating predator-prey relationships in a closed environment.
		Isle Royale is not popular with day-trippers because of the scheduling constraints of transportation to and from the park; with a round-trip travel time of 6-7 hours, the ferries that make this voyage on a daily basis have only a 3-hour layover at the island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isle_Royale_National_Park (902 words)

	Isle Royale National Park
		Isle Royale was located due east of Grand Portage, center of the 17th century fur trade, and among the early Europeans to visit the island were French trappers in 1671.
		Isle Royale gained a measure of fame as a result of a daring winter visit by plane by Ben East and his companions.
		Isle Royal is in the northern part of Lake Superior, closer to the shore of Canada (about 15-18 miles) than the United States (50 miles).
	www.shannontech.com /ParkVision/IsleRoyale/IsleRoyale.html (1798 words)

	Isle Royale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Isle Royale is an island of the Great Lakes, specifically Lake Superior.
		Isle Royale was once the site of a whitefish fishery, a resort community, and unprofitable copper mines.
		Isle Royale is within about 22 miles (35 km) of the Canadian shore of the lake, near the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, and about 50 miles (80 km) from the Michigan shore, on the Keweenaw Peninsula.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/i/is/isle_royale.html (260 words)

	Isle Royale
		Isle Royale's dramatic land and seascapes, isolation and charismatic megafauna (once woodland caribou, now moose) prompted efforts to protect it from development in the 1920s.
		A second historical misrepresentation is the underemphasis of Isle Royale's history with the history of the north shore of Ontario and Minnesota.
		Isle Royale is an impressive, provocative land surrounded by wild lake waters.
	www.michiganhistorymagazine.com /features/discmich/isleroyale.html (1318 words)

	Isle Royale National Park information, pictures, and videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Isle Royale National Park was authorized by Congress in 1931 "to conserve a prime example of North Woods Wilderness." The park was designated part of the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1976, under the Wilderness Act, and remains today as an example of primitive America.
		Isle Royale National Park is significant because it is a remote and primitive wilderness archipelago isolated by the size and power of Lake Superior.
		The weather on Isle Royale is cool throughout the operating season with dense fog in spring, and in summer sunny with temperatures rarely exceeding 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
	www.adventure-crew.com /parks/IsleRoyale.asp (4719 words)

	Isle Royale National Park ~ GPIR Transportation Line, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Isle Royale National Park is a rich historical location, settled by native American copper miners long before the days of Christopher Columbus.
		Isle Royale National Park was authorized in 1931, and in 1980 was designated a biosphere reserve.
		Grand Portage Isle Royale Transportation Line began as a way for the Sivertson family of Lake Superior's north shore to transport their catch of freshwater fish from Isle Royale to Minnesota.
	www.grand-isle-royale.com /about.html (203 words)

	Isle Royale National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Isle Royale is the largest island in Lake Superior, all of which is a national park.
		Isle Royale is over 50 miles (80 km) in length and is accompanied by multiple smaller islands, particularly on its northeast end.
		Isle Royale National Park was established in 1940.
	www.fact-index.com /i/is/isle_royale_national_park.html (277 words)

	Isle Royale National Park. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Isle Royale National Park (EIL roi-AL) (210 sq mi/544 sq km), comprising Isle Royale and about 200 smaller islands, in L. Superior, NW Mich. Isle Royale—210 sq mi/544 sq km, 45 mi/72 km long, max.
		Ryan Isl., in L. Siskiwit, is the largest isl.
		Isle Royale became U.S. territory in 1783 and was ceded to the U.S. by the Chippewa in 1843.
	www.bartleby.com /69/26/I02126.html (262 words)

	Isle Royale National Park travel guide - Wikitravel
		Isle Royale National Park [1] is a United States National Park comprised of Isle Royale and the surrounding waters and small islands, a wilderness preserve in northwest Lake Superior.
		Isle Royale National Park was established by Congress in 1931, and the last of the land de-privatized in 1940 (with some of the land owners given lifetime leases).
		The archipelago (consisting of Isle Royale itself and dozens of smaller islands) is the edge of a geologic fault which pushed up from the lake floor and was scoured by ice-age glaciers into a long, ridged island, with lakes and inlets of Lake Superior filling in low points between some of the ridges.
	wikitravel.org /en/Isle_Royale_National_Park (7199 words)

	Isle Royale, Michigan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Years ago in winter, a scientist studying a pack of timber wolves on Lake Superior’s Isle Royale crossed his fingers and pitched his tent one dusk in the middle of a meadow that he knew the wolves used nightly to cross from one part of the forest to another.
		Isle Royale stretches in a southwesterly-northeasterly direction, looking from above somewhat like an elongated rectangle that extends for miles, and then narrows and shatters into a series of outrigger islands, forming a small archipelago.
		Isle Royale is the grand exception: It isn’t a convenient place to access, and nobody is in a hurry to make that particular task any easier.
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /Parks/Archives/Isle_Royale.htm (828 words)

	Isle Royale - AskTheBrain.com
		Isle Royale National Park encompasses an archipelago of approximately 400 islands, 99% of which is legally designated wilderness.
		Isle Royale is easily accessible from the Michigan mainland as well as from the Minnesota shore of Lake Superior by ferry.
		Isle Royale Institute is a partnership between the National Park Service, Michigan Technological University, and University of Minnesota at Duluth.
	www.askthebrain.com /isle_royale-.html (330 words)

	Isle Royale National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Isle Royale, the largest island in Lake Superior, is over 50 miles (80 km) in length; it and multiple smaller islands along with all water to 2.5 miles of the outer islands make up the park.
		Isle Royale National Park was established on April 3, 1940.
		The Isle Royale Queen out of Copper Harbor, Michigan and the Wenonah, out of Grand Portage, Minnesota operate round-trips daily in peak season, less frequently in spring and autumn.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/i/is/isle_royale_national_park.html (831 words)

	Isle Royale National Park
		Although Isle Royale is one of the least-visited national parks, its return rate is exceptionally high.
		Isle Royale National Park encompasses an archipelago of more than 200 islands, ranging from tiny islets nearly barren of vegetation from the pounding of wind and wave, to the main island that is roughly 45 miles (72 km) long by nine miles (14 km) wide.
		Isle Royale is a community of life-forms, a unique blend of species whose interactions can produce unusual events.
	www.sweetwatervisions.com /Pages/isleroyale.html (1941 words)

	Getting acquainted with Isle Royale \| Chicago Tribune
		ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK,Mich.--If the orange stuff splashed across the rocks really had been copper, and if this 45-mile-long archipelago of volcanic basalt really did hold valuable ore, Mark Gleason would not have been raising the question that day.
		Isle Royale National Park certainly qualifies as wilderness simply because of its isolation--22 miles from Grand Portage, Minn.; 56 miles from Copper Harbor, Mich.; 73 miles from Houghton.
		Isle Royale demands participation, precisely because it lacks the grand scenery of its mountainous sisters.
	chicagotribune.com /travel/chi-960728onp-onp-isleroyale,0,4156569.story (2294 words)

	Isle Royale National Park Information Page
		Isle Royale National Park was authorized by Congress on 03 March 1931 by President Herbert Hoover "to conserve a prime example of North Woods Wilderness." Isle Royale National Park was established on 03 April 1940 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
		Isle Royale is relatively untouched by direct outside influences and serves as a living laboratory and Unites States Biosphere Reserve.
		Isle Royale is indeed an island of superlatives for wilderness and beauty.
	www.isle.royale.national-park.com /info.htm (3162 words)

	GORP - Isle Royal National Park, Michigan
		A giant, jagged seam in the enormous crease left in the earth as glacial ice retreated some 10,000 years ago, Isle Royale is the largest island in the world's largest freshwater lake.
		Isle Royale's rocky shoals have long formed a hazard to passing boats.
		Isle Royale's historic lighthouses have served as pillars of light for over a century, helping ships and boats safely navigate the unpredictable swelling waters of Lake Superior.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_national_park/mi_isle.htm (891 words)

	Isle Royale National Park, An Unofficial Page
		Isle Royale National Park provides recreational activities for roughly 17,000 visitors a year and serves as a natural laboratory for researchers investigating topics ranging from air pollution to wetland ecology.
		Although Isle Royale is often touted as an "Island Wilderness" by concerns promoting tourism and nostalgia, it was actually nearly completely cleared and settled by European Immigrants, resulting in the elimination of over half of the island's original plant and animal species (such as Woodland Caribou).
		The relatively deep waters outside of the Isle Royale Archipelago rarely warm past 45 degrees F at the surface during the summer, with the surface of relatively shallow bays, coves, and harbors rarely exceeding 50 degrees F. Subsurface temperatures remain below 40 degrees F year-round.
	www.nyx.net /~sjhoward/Isle_Royale/index.shtml (2726 words)

	travisnovitsky.com: Isle Royale National Park
		Isle Royale is accessible only by boat or float plane.
		The Greenstone Ridge, which forms the backbone of Isle Royale, is thought by many geologists to be a portion of the largest lava flow on earth.
		All in all, Isle Royale is a fascinating biographical ecosystem, responding to influences seen in very few places in all of the world.
	www.travisnovitsky.com /-/travisnovitsky/article.asp?ID=888 (375 words)

	Isle Royale National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Headquarters for Isle Royale National Park during the summer is located on Mott Island, one of numerous islands associated with the Isle Royale archipelago.
		Isle Royale Natural History Association Isle Royale Natural History Association is a non-profit organization which supports educational and research activities in the Isle Royale National Park through the sales of educational materials and by fund-raising.
		At Isle Royale National Park, emphasis is placed on low impact camping to preserve the fragile environment and not disturb the abundance of wildlife.
	www.enjoymichigan.com /clients/isleroyalnp.html (1885 words)

	USGS Geochemical Backgrounds and Baselines, mercury on Isle Royale
		Isle Royale is now a National Park and a designated wilderness region with only minimal human impact, mostly concentrated along the coast.
		The survey on Isle Royale is collecting three different species of epiphytic lichens on traverses along and across the island and will map relative differences in mercury content in the atmosphere and precipitation on the island.
		Laurel Woodruff and Connie Dicken of the USGS on Minong Ridge, Isle Royale.
	minerals.usgs.gov /east/baselines/isrohg1.html (602 words)

	Isle Royale Ferry Service Home Page
		Copper Harbor, Michigan and Rock Harbor on Isle Royale and is a US Coast Guard inspected and certified 100-foot, steel, twin diesel-powered passenger boat.
		Isle Royale is a striking combination of dense wilderness and broad vistas.
		Though teeming with wildlife, Isle Royale is best known for its moose and wolves living in natural balance.
	www.isleroyale.com (284 words)

	National Park Service: Fauna7 (History of Isle Royale Mammals)
		The most abundant mammal on Isle Royale in 1905 (possibly except for the deer mouse) was the snowshoe hare, according to Adams (1909).
		The earliest record of the red fox on Isle Royale was furnished by Pete Edisen.
		Although there is no definite record of the presence of otters on Isle Royale, it seems odd that such an aquatic mammal would not have found its way to the island.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/fauna7/fauna3.htm (1688 words)

	Rock Harbor Lodge - Isle Royale, Michigan Lakeside Resort & National Park Vacation
		Isle Royale National Park offers visitors unforgettable hiking trails, bird watching, photography, boating, fishing, canoeing, kayaking, lighthouse tours, and pure enjoyment of the natural beauty of the area.
		Isle Royale is an unknown paradise of the U.S.A. Rates shown are in US Dollars.
		Your Isle Royale adventure can be the trip of a lifetime and inspire you to return again.
	www.gordonsguide.com /resorts/isleroyaleresort/index.cfm (454 words)

	SPARC - Searchable Park Access to Research Catchments: Isle Royale National Park, Michigan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Isle Royale has 165 miles of scenic hiking trails and 36 campgrounds for backpackers, paddlers, and recreational boaters.
		Isle Royale is relatively untouched by direct outside influences and serves as a living laboratory and is a United States Biosphere Reserve.
		As part of PRIMENet, Isle Royale carbon and nitrogen dynamics were studied.
	www.umaine.edu /sparc/ISRO/ISRO.htm (239 words)

	Isle Royale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Isle Royal is accessible only by ferries out of Houghton-Hancock or Copper Harbor, and via seaplane.
		Isle Royale’s seclusion has preserved it’s distinct physical features from the development of man. It’s topography was carved by receding glaciers, which created dramatic ridges and valleys decorated by exposed and coniferous forest-covered rock slabs and inland lakes.
		Isle Royale is the main landmass of it’s archipelago, with a ring of smaller, thickly pined islands that protect Isle Royale from the deep waters of Lake Superior.
	www.msu.edu /~pohlkath/isleroyale.html (293 words)

	Isle Royale Information
		Isle Royale is America's only island national park.
		It was authorized by Congress in 1931 "to conserve a prime example of Northwoods Wilderness." In 1976, the park was designated part of the National Wilderness Preservation System under the Wilderness Act, and remains today an example of primitive America--under the act, 99% of the island must be undeveloped wilderness.
		In 1981, Isle Royale was designated an International Biosphere Reserve by the United Nations, giving it international scientific and educational significance.
	www.isleroyale.com /isle.html (530 words)

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