Marine Protected Area · usa
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Sanctuary
- Area
- 11 071 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 2000
Overview
- Designation
- Marine Protected Area
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 2000
- Managing authority
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ; State Department of Conservation
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 866 distinct species · 57 897 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Sanctuary : 34 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology27 basins · 1 lakes · 12 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
28,7km
Lake surface here
11 067,50km²
Basins crossed
27
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
520 073km²
Discharge in basins
61 377,6m³/s
Mean precip.
772mm/an
Mean T°
6,0°C
Moisture idx
-0,03
Max snow
35%
Mean runoff
191mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
181m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Mill Creeksub-area1 429,8 km²overlap1360.45 km²12%
- Bassin de Ocqueoc Riversub-area2 205,7 km²overlap1202.98 km²11%
- Bassin de Black Riversub-area1 186,5 km²overlap1008.24 km²9%
- Bassin de Little Trout Riversub-area1 406,6 km²overlap937.96 km²8%
- Basin #14930sub-area872,8 km²overlap846.05 km²8%
- Basin #02760sub-area900,8 km²overlap820.89 km²7%
- Basin #06760sub-area771,3 km²overlap740.77 km²7%
- Bassin de Long Lake Creeksub-area831 km²overlap618.11 km²6%
- Bassin de Mulligan Creeksub-area1 412,4 km²overlap592.10 km²5%
18 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Grimsthorpe Creeksub-area1 879 km²overlap516.36 km²5%
- Basin #26470sub-area1 102,9 km²overlap496.90 km²4%
- Basin #10770sub-area984,7 km²overlap327.46 km²3%
- Basin #14850sub-area300 km²overlap300.72 km²3%
- Basin #10640sub-area252 km²overlap252.62 km²2%
- Basin #06770sub-area686,8 km²overlap223.80 km²2%
- Bassin de Thunder Bay Riversub-area263,6 km²overlap114.61 km²1%
- Bassin de South Branch Devils Riversub-area347,1 km²overlap114.23 km²1%
- Bassin de St. Marys Riversub-area2 256,6 km²overlap95.61 km²1%
- Basin #02650sub-area677,8 km²overlap94.91 km²1%
- Bassin de Maple Creeksub-area1 071,9 km²overlap94.24 km²1%
- Basin #89980sub-area173,2 km²overlap85.89 km²1%
- Bassin de Steele Creeksub-area694,1 km²overlap67.30 km²1%
- Bassin de Thessalon Riversub-area2 679,7 km²overlap59.06 km²1%
- Basin #26320sub-area101,8 km²overlap55.87 km²1%
- Basin #08640sub-area23,2 km²overlap23.27 km²0%
- Basin #27090sub-area243,7 km²overlap17.59 km²0%
- Bassin de Mindemoya Riversub-area1 350,2 km²overlap0.11 km²0%
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (12, ord ≥ 4)
- Trout Riverord 3len here5.55 km8%total70 km
- Thunder Bay Riverord 5len here4.65 km4%total114 km
- Grand Lake Outletord 2len here4.25 km58%total7 km
- Mulligan Creekord 1len here3.23 km9%total34 km
- Ocqueoc Riverord 3len here2.83 km4%total64 km
- Devils Riverord 2len here2.26 km9%total24 km
- Black Riverord 5len here1.85 km0%total1155 km
- Little Trout Riverord 2len here1.40 km2%total60 km
- Black Mallard Riverord 2len here1.15 km11%total10 km
- Long Lake Creekord 2len here0.72 km2%total33 km
- Nagel Creekord 2len here0.55 km21%total3 km
- Mill Creekord 4len here0.24 km0%total581 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 45.17299, -82.92501
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.