QUICK FACTS FOR 6-18 KEDA NEWSLETTER
Duration of daylight on Rainy Lake on the Summer Solstice – 16 hours, 8 minutes.
Length of the Great Northern Transmission line bringing 500kV power from the Minnesota/Manitoba border to Northern Minnesota (through Koochiching County) – 224 miles.
Source of the name “Koochiching” – from the Ojibwe meaning “at the place of inlets”, or “mists of the inlet” referring to the falls that flowed from Rainy Lake into Rainy River.