The Sibley Peninsula is a 52-kilometre (32 mi) long and 10-kilometre (6 mi) wide peninsula in Ontario, Canada, on Lake Superior. It projects into the lake from Superior's north shore, and separates Thunder Bay to the west from Black Bay to the east.[1]
Sleeping Giant Provincial Park occupies most of the peninsula, while the actual Sleeping Giant rock formation, which resembles a human figure lying on its back, forms the southernmost extension of the peninsula. Twenty native fish species are known from lakes within the park.[2]
Also on the peninsula are the Thunder Cape Bird Observatory, at its southern tip, and the small town of Silver Islet. Highway 587 runs along the peninsula from Highway 17 to Silver Islet. The peninsula was named after Alexander H. Sibley, president of the Silver Islet Mining Company that developed a mine there.
- ^ Sleeping Giant Background Information, 3.2 Earth Science, Topography, pp. 11.
- ^ Stephenson, S.A. and W.T. Momot (1994), "Isostatic rebound and its effects on fish colonization and distribution in the western Lake Superior basin", Canadian Journal of Zoology, 72 (1): 78–86, doi:10.1139/z94-011