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===Islands=== [[File:Put-in-Bay Airport.jpg|thumb|[[South Bass Island]] in Lake Erie]] Dispersed throughout the Great Lakes are approximately [[List of islands of the Great Lakes|35,000 islands]].<ref name="Bennett1999as"/> The largest among them is [[Manitoulin Island]] in Lake Huron, the largest island in any inland body of water in the world.<ref name="Dunn1996bv">{{cite book |last = Dunn |first = Gary A |title = Insects of the Great Lakes Region |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=HWHXdlPF-7cC&pg=PA3 |year = 1996 |publisher = [[University of Michigan Press]] |isbn = 978-0-472-06515-8 |page = 3 }}</ref> The second-largest island is [[Isle Royale]] in Lake Superior.<ref name="Huber(U.S.)1975">{{cite book |last1 = Huber |first1 = Norman King |author2 = United States Geological Survey |author3 = United States National Park Service |title = The geologic story of Isle Royale National Park |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Te8sAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA41 |year = 1975 |publisher = Government Printing Office |page = 41 |isbn = 9780932212313 }}</ref> Both of these islands are large enough to contain multiple lakes themselves—for instance, Manitoulin Island's [[Lake Manitou]] is the world's largest lake on a freshwater island.<ref name="Manivanan2008">{{cite book |last = Manivanan |first = R. |title = Water Quality Modeling: Rivers, Streams, and Estuaries |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KneEuR09lsQC&pg=PA114 |year = 2008 |publisher = New India Publishing |isbn = 978-81-89422-93-6 |page = 114 }}</ref> Some of these lakes even have their own islands, like [[Treasure Island (Ontario)|Treasure Island]] in [[Lake Mindemoya]] in Manitoulin Island.
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