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There are tens of thousands of caribou and musk-ox on the island, but few of them are map nerds. That digital discoverer could be you! Just a thought. Explore the world's oddities every week on CondeNastTraveler. People can leave Chicago or leave Toronto to go somewhere to find their roots, to find their homeland.

But these are our homelands. After European settlers arrived in the Great Lakes, Native American populations were slowly dispossessed of their lands through force and treaties until many ended up together on Manitoulin Island.

Many tribes signed treaties diminishing the size of their lands, but the Wiikwemkoong kept the title to their land, known as the Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory, on the eastern peninsula of Manitoulin Island. Manitoulin Island is a sprawling countryside about the size of Rhode Island but with a population of around 12,; there are some areas where deer outnumber people.

The landscape features steep coastal cliff sides, rugged hills, waterfalls and more than inland lakes — some of which have islands of their own. Many First Nation tribes, including the Wiikwemkoong, have filed legal challenges seeking to reestablish claim over many of the islands in Georgian Bay, which are currently under Canadian control.

In , the Canadian government began issuing commercial fishing leases in waters near Manitoulin Island. Wiikwemkoong leaders, worried about overfishing, evicted the fishermen, giving rise to a heated standoff between the tribe and Canadian authorities. While the tribe was able to retain its historic fishing grounds, today, those waters that they have tried to protect are a vestige of their former selves.

Lawrence River. In the ballast tanks, nonnative species stowed away and slipped into freshwater. In the past century, sea lampreys, eel-like creatures that latch on to fish and drain their blood, have devastated lake trout populations. Alewives, a small herring, boomed in population, crowding out other small native fish. Fishery managers introduced nonnative salmon to prey on the alewives and boost sport fishing.

But the salmon population collapsed in Lake Huron following the introduction of zebra and quagga mussels. Trillions upon trillions of the fingernail-sized shellfish rapidly colonized the lake. Each can filter a liter of water a day. These days, there are few commercial fishermen left. Those still in operation fish as more of a hobby than a profession. On a weekday, when the nets set by local commercial fishermen came up empty, hundreds of thousands of hearty rainbow trout swam in open-water pens in Manitowaning Bay.

Ben Kanasawe started Buzwah Fisheries as an experiment about 20 years ago. Today, he harvests and sells around 2. In ocean and freshwater lakes, fish stocks have plummeted due to a combination of overfishing, pollution and invasive species. Peltier and others worry the next menace is a mere miles away in Chicago, where the voracious Asian carp are swimming up the Illinois River toward Lake Michigan.

However, exhaustive trolling of Google Earth has proven otherwise. The distinction is now known to belong to a narrow, four-acre strip of land in Canada that has probably never been visited by humans. Located at exactly That resides inside one of a series of long finger lakes located 75 miles inland from the southern coast of Victoria Island, a land feature in Northern Canada that is the eighth largest island in the world.