geography

Geography teachers would be in a real pickle talking about this tropical island.

When you have spent as much time surrounded by the Great Lakes as we have here in Michigan, it's easy to think you know it all.

It's a tri-point and a little Lansing area geographic oddity, the exact spot where Ingham, Eaton and Clinton Counties all meet.

Michigan's time zone boundary gives us a geographic oddity - the westernmost point of the Eastern Time Zone in the United States.

Ask someone what the longest tunnel in Michigan is, they'll probably say the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. But we share that tunnel with Canada. This tunnel is the longest one in West Michigan.

This map features nothing but US Highways. Michigan is, of course, always easy to find on maps, so can you do it with just the US Highways in the state?

Mount Arvon in northern Michigan's Huron Mountains has always been considered the highest point in the state. Surprisingly, that high point has been replaced by a pile of mining waste from the Tiden Mine near Ishpeming.

Maybe being "Up North" is just a state of mind, when you consider how many spots in the Upper Peninsula area actually south of the Mackinac Bridge.

From the Toledo War to a 1973 Supreme Court Case, the Michigan-Ohio border is one of the most contested in American history. The reason? The point that was to mark the beginning of the border is lost forever.