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Isle Royale

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Isle Roy·ale  (roil)
An island of northern Michigan in Lake Superior near the coast of Ontario. French fur traders named the island in 1671. Native Americans mined the island's copper for centuries before ceding the island to the United States in 1843. It is now a tourist center.

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Perched high at the top of the mountain are four lookout spots where one could see Isle Royale, Mink Island and Spar Island.
And on Lake Superior's Isle Royale in northern Michigan, a one-time population of 2,000 moose has fallen to 450, says Rolf Peterson.
Waite, Peterson, and John Vucetich, also of Michigan Tech, used the Isle Royale data.
 
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