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Lake Huron
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Charming Mackinac Island (pronounced MACK-in-naw), in Lake Huron's Straits of Mackinac, which divide Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas, feels more like a slice of the historic Northeast than an old Midwestern outpost. While the 3.8-square-mile island has about 525 year-round residents, it receives some 15,000 daily visitors during the summer. Arrivals are transported into another place and time to an escape from life in the 21st century as we know it. (With the exception of emergency and service vehicles, aids for the handicapped and snowmobiles, no motorized transport is allowed on the island; foot, bicycle and horse-drawn carriage are the only accepted modes of transportation.)
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Deep beneath Lake Huron, signs of the Great Lakes' first human settlers are emerging. Some 10,000 years or more ago, hunter-gatherers pursued migrating caribou in a corridor between Michigan and Ontario, a ridge that today is submerged in Lake Huron. The groups created lanes of football-sized rocks to guide herds toward an ambush, according to research by University of Michigan scientists.
