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Along the Kingston to the north, the St. Lawrence
River to its surrounding, large and multi branch of the St. Lawrence River
divided land out hundreds of islands, there is we will travel to the thousand
islands.
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Thousand Islands, which is the
product of the great ice age, and is connected with the Atlantic, there are a
total of 1865 large and small islands. Lake Center line, divided into two parts,
the South Bank of the United States of New York. North shore is Canada's
Ontario province.
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Of the 1865 islands, 2 / 3 are in Canada. And the
United States has a large area of the island, and there are deep water channels
leading to the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes by the five lakes of Canada and the
United States boundary composition: Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Superior,
Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.
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Among them, in addition to the Lake Michigan is
entirely the United States, the other four lakes, are the United States and
Canada's boundary lake. The total area of the water area is 245660 square
kilometers. The world's largest freshwater lake group, close to each other, and
mutual connection, the vast area, rich in water, the scenery is very beautiful.
Each freshwater lake has been large enough, but also a few fresh water lake
together, which in itself is a spectacle of the natural world.
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In the Thousand Islands region Ivylea, a connecting
the United States and Canada International bridge across the lake, like a
natural rainbow, for the Thousand Island increased somewhat delicate. Vehicles
on the bridge to the south, to go north, did not stop, as if the busy scene.
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Canada's Thousand Islands is located near Kingston in
province of Ontario. Kingston junction is located
in five due to the Great Lakes, so also known as the "city of water".
Once upon a time, a well-known port. And Thousand Islands is connected to the
St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario River, dotted with 1865 big and small of
island. The smallest is just a rock, a large number of square miles can be
achieved.
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Take the boat to browse, port of Thousand Islands, in
the city center of Kingston. Another port near the town in
Kingston, it is Town of Gananoque. Travel on board with 3 languages: English,
Korean and Chinese to explain.
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Thousand Islands is very beautiful, and there are many
beautiful legends:
One is in Canada's Zavicon. The president of the
General Motors Corporation, the trustee on behalf of a small island in the United
States. He came to see the island is too small, cannot make a big house, is to
buy the Zavicon in Canada and built a very grand holiday homes on the island.
In Canada and the United States between the two island built a small bridge,
only forty-eight feet long, across Canada and the United States between the
waterways, it is the world's shortest cross-border bridge.
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The second is a sad story of Heart Island. This island
is a former New York tourist industry tycoon George C. Boldt buy a gift to give
his wife, he will shore in the island to build into a heart-shaped plane, in
the central highlands of the island building a magnificent castle style of
European palace. Because the wife has to take his mother to live in the heart
of the island, he in the heart of the island at the end of the water's edge,
was built in the a small fort to his mother-in-law, both of which have small
bridge connected, very interesting said suspended mother-in-law of the heart,
to ingratiate themselves with his wife.
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The beauty of the Thousand Islands and it is closely
related to the clean water, lake water is clear and quiet, like a mirror. We
took a boat against the sea breeze, the bow ring rippling water, white spray on
the stern. All kinds of villas with green island, green lake water dissolve
into an organic whole, make the calm lake become more obsequious
and moving.
