A report on Lake Champlain, Vermont and Isle La Motte

Lake Champlain-River Richelieu watershed
Sentinel-2 satellite photo
Lake Champlain in Burlington Harbor during sunset on May 27, 2012
The Old Constitution House at Windsor, where the Constitution of Vermont was adopted on July 8, 1777
Map of Fort Sainte-Anne and other forts on the Richelieu River, c. 1666
Brooklyn Museum – Green Mountains, Lake Champlain – Winckworth Allan Gay – overall
A circa 1775 flag used by the Green Mountain Boys
Statue of Champlain and guide on Isle La Motte
Map of Lac Champlain, from Fort de Chambly up to Fort St-Fréderic in Nouvelle France. Cadastral map showing concessions and seigneuries on the coasts of the lake according to 1739 surveying.
The gold leaf dome of the neoclassical Vermont State House (Capitol) in Montpelier
Charlotte Ferry, Lake Champlain
1791 Act of Congress admitting Vermont into the Union
The Champlain Valley as seen from Camel's Hump
Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed.
Lake Champlain, Charlotte, Vermont
Map of Vermont showing cities, roads, and rivers
Dutton House, Shelburne Museum
Population density of Vermont
Stagecoach Inn, Shelburne Museum
Mount Mansfield
Sawmill, Shelburne Museum
Western face of Camel's Hump Mountain (elevation 4079 ft).
A 1902 photograph of Fort Henry at Lake Champlain
Fall foliage at Lake Willoughby
The Champlain Bridge between New York and Vermont, demolished in December 2009
Köppen climate types of Vermont, using 1991–2020 climate normals.
The LCTC ferry slip at Grand Isle, Vermont
Silurian and Devonian stratigraphy of Vermont
The Swanton-Alburgh trestle spans Lake Champlain between the two Vermont towns: a distance of about 0.8 mi.
The hermit thrush, the state bird of Vermont
At sunset, looking west from Grand Isle to Plattsburgh and Crab Island
A proportional representation of Vermont exports, 2020
The lighthouse in Lake Champlain at dusk, as seen from Burlington, VT
Fall foliage seen from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington
USCG, Burlington, Vermont – main installation
Lake Champlain
Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife boat docked near ECHO Aquarium
Autumn in Vermont
Stowe Resort Village
The Lyndon Institute, a high school in Lyndon, Vermont
The University of Vermont Old Mill, the oldest building of the university
Vermont welcome sign in Addison on Route 17 just over the New York border over the Champlain Bridge
Amtrak station in White River Junction
The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in Vernon
The Vermont Supreme Court's building in Montpelier
Vermont towns hold a March town meeting for voters to approve the town's budget and decide other matters. Marlboro voters meet in this building.
Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Representative Peter Welch greet supporters in 2017.
Vermontasaurus sculpture in Post Mills, in 2010

Lake Champlain (Lac Champlain; Abenaki: Pitawbagw ["At Lake Champlain" (loc.):Pitawbagok]; ) is a natural freshwater lake in North America mainly within the borders of the United States (in the states of Vermont and New York) but also across the Canada–U.S. border into the Canadian province of Quebec.

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Isle La Motte is an island in Lake Champlain in northwestern Vermont, United States.

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There are a number of islands in the lake; the largest include Grand Isle, Isle La Motte and North Hero: all part of Grand Isle County, Vermont.

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The geography of the state is marked by the Green Mountains, which run north–south up the middle of the state, separating Lake Champlain and other valley terrain on the west from the Connecticut River valley that defines much of its eastern border.

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In 1666, French settlers erected Fort Sainte Anne on Isle La Motte, the first European settlement in Vermont.

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Lake Champlain-River Richelieu watershed

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Grand Isle County, Vermont

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Grand Isle County is a county in the U.S. state of Vermont.

Four of its five towns (North Hero, South Hero, Grand Isle and Isle La Motte) are situated entirely on islands in Lake Champlain, while Alburgh is on a peninsula (an exclave known as the Alburgh Tongue) extending south into the lake from Quebec.

Alburgh (town), Vermont

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Post office
Sign on US2

Alburgh (formerly Alburg) is a town in Grand Isle County, Vermont, United States, founded in 1781 by Ira Allen.

Alburgh is on the Alburgh Tongue, a peninsula extending from Canada into Lake Champlain, and lies on the only road-based route across Lake Champlain to New York state north of Addison, Vermont.

Isle La Motte lies to the southwest.

Inauthentic depiction of Champlain, by Théophile Hamel (1870), after the one by Ducornet, based on a portrait of Michel Particelli d'Emery by Balthasar Moncornet. No authentic portrait of Champlain is known to exist.

Samuel de Champlain

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French colonist, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler.

French colonist, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler.

Inauthentic depiction of Champlain, by Théophile Hamel (1870), after the one by Ducornet, based on a portrait of Michel Particelli d'Emery by Balthasar Moncornet. No authentic portrait of Champlain is known to exist.
Detail from "Défaite des Iroquois au Lac de Champlain," Champlain Voyages (1613). This self-portrait is the only surviving contemporary likeness of the explorer.
Sir Sandford Fleming Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia – Stone from Samuel de Champlain's birthplace in Brouage, France (1574)
Champlain and guide in Isle La Motte, Vermont, at the site Champlain is said to have first set foot in Vermont (and encamped) in 1609. Lake Champlain is in the background. (Sculptor E.L.Weber, 1967; Photo by Matt Wills, 2009)
Plaque in Honfleur commemorating Champlain's departures
Painting by George Agnew Reid, done for the third centennial (1908), showing the arrival of Samuel de Champlain on the site of Quebec City.
Engraving based on a drawing by Champlain of his 1609 voyage. It depicts a battle between Iroquois and Algonquian tribes near Lake Champlain
Chaleur Bay and Gulf of Saint Lawrence — extract of Champlain 1612 map
Marine astrolabe attributed to Champlain, made in France in 1603, found in Ontario in 1867.
Samuel de Champlain, Nepean Point, Ottawa by Hamilton MacCarthy
Map of New France (Champlain, 1612). A more precise map was drawn by Champlain in 1632.
19th century artist's conception of Champlain by E. Ronjat.
Statue of Samuel de Champlain at sunrise (looking to the north-west; with a similar expressive face as traditionally Jacques Cartier's), by (Paris, 1896–1898), as newly repaired for 2008, at Quebec City since 1898, near Château Frontenac grand hotel, on the Terrasse Dufferin.

Champlain is memorialized as the "Father of New France", "Father of Acadia", or in French "Père de la Nouvelle-France" with many places, streets, and structures in northeastern North America bearing his name, most notably Lake Champlain.

Many sites and landmarks have been named to honour Champlain, who was a prominent figure in many parts of Acadia, Ontario, Quebec, New York, and Vermont.

A memorial statue in Isle La Motte, Vermont, on the shore of Lake Champlain.

Stromatoporoid at Fisk Quarry, Isle La Motte, Vermont

Chazy Formation

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Mid-Ordovician limestone deposit in northeastern North America.

Mid-Ordovician limestone deposit in northeastern North America.

Stromatoporoid at Fisk Quarry, Isle La Motte, Vermont
Chazy fossils (rhaphanocrinus gemmeus), New York State Museum, 1902

The reef extends from Tennessee to Quebec and Newfoundland, but its most easily studied outcropping is at Goodsell Ridge, Isle La Motte, the northernmost island in Lake Champlain; there, gentle uplift has tilted the sediments: the bedding planes now dip slightly to the north, revealing sequences of horizons in exposed rock.

Rock of the Chazy Formation was quarried from the nineteenth century at the Fisk Quarry, Isle La Motte, the oldest quarry in Vermont.