Lake Michigamme

{{Short description| Lake in the state of Michigan, United States}}

{{Infobox body of water

| name = Lake Michigamme

| image = Michigamme.JPG

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| location = Marquette and Baraga counties, Michigan, United States

| coords = {{coord|46.5204|-88.0413|format=dms|type:waterbody_region:US-MI|display=inline,title}}

| type = Reservoir

| inflow = Peshekee River and Spurr River

| outflow = Michigamme River

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| basin_countries = United States

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| area = {{convert|4292|acre|abbr=on}}

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| max-depth = {{convert|70|ft|m|abbr=on}}

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| elevation = {{convert|1552|feet|abbr=on}}{{gnis|632202}}

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| pushpin_map_alt = Location of the lake in Michigan.

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Lake Michigamme ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|ɪ|ʃ|ə|g|ɒ|m|i}} {{respell|mish|ə|GAH|mee}}), one of Michigan's largest lakes, reaches a depth of over {{convert|70|ft|m}}.{{cite web

| url = http://hunts-upguide.com/michigamme_detail.html

| title = MICHIGAMME

| website = Hunts' Guide to Michigan's UPPER PENINSULA

| publisher = Midwestern Guides

|url-status= dead

|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110321131438/http://hunts-upguide.com/michigamme_detail.html

|archive-date= 2011-03-21

}} It covers {{convert|4292|acre|km2}} in Marquette and Baraga counties, Michigan.{{cite web

| url = http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/LakeMichigamme_185123_7.pdf

| title = Lake Michigamme Survey Summary

| last = Abrahamson

| first = Arnold

| date = September 2006

| website = michigan.gov

| publisher = State of Michigan Department of Natural Resources

|url-status= dead

|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170209065624/http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/LakeMichigamme_185123_7.pdf

|archive-date= 2017-02-09

}} Van Riper State Park provides public access. The vast majority of the lake lies in Marquette County, with only its westernmost part extending into Baraga County.

The lake runs about {{convert|6|mi|km|spell=in}} east to west, with a southern arm extending about another {{convert|4|mi|km|spell=in}}. A dam separates the Michigamme River from the main body of the lake at the end of the southern arm. The Spurr River flows into the lake's west end and the Peshekee River flows into the lake in the northeast. Van Riper State Park and Van Riper beach are located at the eastern shoreline of the main arm. The lake is speckled with many islands and rock beds that often creep over the waterline in late summer and fall.

Common fish include smallmouth bass, northern pike, walleye, rock bass, and even whitefish in the deeper parts.

Michigamme is an Ojibwe Anishinaabe name meaning "middle large sea".{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA101|year=1908|page=101}}

Michigan is part of the Great Lakes Area, which was originally inhabited by the Anishinaabe people,{{cite map|title=GIDAKIIMINAAN(Our Earth): An Anishinaabe Atlas of the 1836 (Upper Michigan), 1837, and 1842 Treaty Ceded Territories|url= https://glifwc.org/publications/pdf/Atlas.pdf}} colonized by the French, then later sold to the USA. As such, many words & names are French, or French interpretations of Indigenous words & names, which are further mistranslated into English.