Lake Champlain, Vermont’s “Great Lake” | New England by the Numbers

1609 year French explorer Samuel de Champlain sailed into the Lake Champlain region 6.8 trillion gallons of water: Champlain’s estimated volume 120 & 12 miles: Champlain’s length and maximum width, more than three times the size of New England’s second-largest lake, Moosehead in Maine fifty-four public beaches 4000 canal boats plying Champlain’s waters between 1819 and 1940 Three Hundred documented shipwrecks on the lake’s bottom eighty-one species of fish in the lake 1 illustrious and oft-sighted lake monster, “Champ” 450-480 million years: age of Champlain’s Chazy Reef, one of the oldest in the world 400 feet: Champlain’s maximum depth seventy-one islands (including one that’s an entire county) 27 daily round-trip summer ferry crossings between Charlotte, Vermont, and Essex, New York 300 recorded sightings of “Champ” since 1609