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����k�~!��X�����0;���$�v;����?���������f���csҔ���l��j�0~R7�G�� Before the building boom in China went tits up, they were re-opening shuttered mines and taconite plants in Minnesota to meet demand, a good portion of that shipping from Duluth/Superior/Two Harbors. (Photo: Thomas Fricke/Canadian Geographic), Canadian Geographic student geography challenge, Help designate an official bird for Canada, Grade 8 students exploring Parks Canada sites, Compare countries' statistics and explore our changing world, Innovative projects in the developing world, The revolution of mapping in the First World War, Canadian pilots heroically earn their wings, Canadian Geographic magazine in french: Géographica, London-based data visualisation studio Kiln, Accessibility Standard for Customer Service Plan. The navigation tools provided, including We are so focused on road travel these days that seeing the Great Lakes from the perspective of shipping freight is a bit of a mind-bender. The researchers note that "while ships can move freely through the open ocean, routes are predetermined closer to land." The link to MarineTraffic.com is provided for your convenience. Only a few ships can go through the narrow locks at a time as they are slowly raised and lowered using water from the lake above. or do they follow the curves of the rivers, and lakes? This is why I come to this subreddit. Map with JOSM Remote; View. About 40 percent of world trade passes through this strait each year, including much of the crude oil that goes from the Middle East to China. welcomed feedback. accepted. Now there's a great way to visualize this entire process, through this stunning interactive map from the UCL Energy Institute: You can use the toggles at the top of the map to break down the ships by type — container ships (yellow), dry bulk carriers (blue), oil and fuel tankers (red), gas carriers (green), and ships transporting vehicles (purple) — or zoom in on different regions. The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the upper mid-east region of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River.In general, they are on or near the Canada–United States border.They are lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. Feb 11, 2017 - A map of Great Lakes shipping routes during the mid-20th century shows the Chicago and southern Great Lakes regions as main centers for steel manufacturing. I tried Googling for exact production numbers but could not find anything, I just got links to stuff on mining history, not data. The location data for these ships is currently coming from a receiver at my house, but I hope to move that up to the Stutsmanville repeater site sometime soon to improve coverage. The researchers assembled data from the thousands of commercial ships that moved across the ocean in 2012. newsletter. IIRC the Iron Range still produces a huge amount of iron ore, but it is of much lower quality than what it used to be, a century ago the iron range had some of the highest quality iron ore in the world, now all that is mined out and all that is left is the low-quality ore that has to be processed into taconite to be useful.