Indiana Dunes: shoreline along Lake Michigan third biggest of the five Great Lakes of North America and the stand out lying entirely inside the United States. Flanked by the conditions of Michigan (east and north), Wisconsin (west), Illinois (southwest), and Indiana (southeast), it associates with Lake Huron through the Straits of Mackinac in the north. The lake is 321 miles (517 km) long (north to south); it has a most extreme width of 118 miles (190 km) and a seepage bowl of around 45,500 square miles (118,000 square km), select of its surface range, which is 22,300 square miles (57,757 square km). With a mean surface height of 579 feet (176 m) above ocean level, the lake has a most extreme profundity of 923 feet (281 m). Streams are slight, with a by and large southward float along the western side, a northward float along the eastern side, and now and again counterclockwise whirls in the southern bowl and around the Beaver Island bunch in the north. Around 100 streams stream into the lake, just a couple of which are of apparent size. The Manistee, Pere Marquette, White, Muskegon, Grand, Kalamazoo, and St. Joseph streams enter the lake from the east. The Fox and Menominee waterways stream into Green Bay, a northwestern arm of the lake. The Chicago River streamed into the southwestern end of the lake however was switched in 1900 so that it now depletes through the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal into the Des Plaines River at Joliet, Ill. The northern end of the lake contains the greater part of the islands, the biggest of which is Beaver Island, Michigan.