Maps of the U.P.

I found this image at "The Book Bench" within the website of The New Yorker in a review of "Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States that Never Made It" by Michael Trinklein. (Visit Quirk Books to learn about the book.)



This map comes from "Cusack's Diary" at andrewcusack.com (no clue). The article points out that on this map the Upper Peninsula of Michigan seems to be part of Canada ... The map is from an article in the Wall Street Journal by Michael Trinklein. It's an interesting map to play with (click here for the interactive, whole U.S. version), just kind of funny how the U.P., which did indeed long to be the 51st state, a state called "Superior," is not included in the map's depiction of that proposed state. (You'll find at the interactive site that you have to mouse over Wisconsin to get the U.P./Superior story ...)



Now here's a picture from Wikipedia's page on "Superior." The caption reads: Proposed map of Superior. Red areas indicate generally accepted areas of Superior, while pink areas are present in some definitions. The red area, for those who aren't sure, is Michigan's upper peninsula, and that little slash of red above the U.P. is Isle Royale. Pink areas are Wisconsin (on the left) and Michigan's lower peninsula (on the right).

Now, does anybody know why the name "Superior"?

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