Lake Champlain

The lake Champlain is with horse between the Canada and the the United States. Its extent is primarily on the American territory, forming the sixth greater stretch of water of the country. It is located at the border of the states of the Vermont and New York, its northern end being in the south of the province of the Quebec. It is drained naturally by the Rivière Richelieu. The area of the lake is called Champlain Valley .

The lake draws its name from the explorer French Samuel de Champlain, which recognized it in 1608.

Its altitude is of approximately thirty meters above the sea level. The ports of Burlington, Port Henry, and Plattsburgh, even if they reached a certain commercial importance in the past, today are used little except by the small ships, ferry S and boats of cruising.

Of an approximate surface of 1130 km ², the lake is approximately 180 km long, for 19 km in its broadest point, and contains nearly 80 island S. The lake Champlain would shelter to him also its mythical monster, Champie , remote cousin of the Monstre of the Log Born.

At the time colonial, the lake was used as transportation route between the valleys of the the St. Lawrence and the Hudson, be like winter (on ice). Important battles proceeded close to its banks (Fort Ticonderoga in 1758 and 1777) or on its water (in 1776 with Valcour Island and in 1814 with Plattsburgh).

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