Landlocked, as an economic term, often implies a lack of major shipping ports. (The negative connotation of the term is arguably mainly from the higher prices for everything that has to be shipped in.)
For anyone expecting the economic definition (the more useful one) of “land locked”, this map doesn’t help, because the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River allow massive thriving sea ports for ocean going vessels - in states adjacent to them.
Edit: A map updated for major shipping ports would also be funnier, since Nebraska is extra fucked, in comparison. Although, there’s no border taxes between the states, so the economic disadvantage of being land locked is also drastically reduced, for Nebraska, compared to the usual meaning.
The Great Lakes feed into the Atlantic, so half the Midwest should be blue
The Mississippi River is also navigable for barges all the way up through Minnesota
Jesse: Michigan is a landlocked state.
Walter: The Great Lakes State?
Jesse: I mean, sure it is made up of two peninsulas and a bunch of islands,
And it has more coastline than Hawaii,
And the Great Lakes feed into the ocean through the St Lawrence Seaway, And millions of tonnes of cargo pass through the Great Lakes each year on oceangoing vessels.
But it technically does not have a border touching the ocean. That means it’s landlocked.Walter: Jesse, WTF are you talking about?
I feel like the Great Lakes should count for something.
Lake Superior has the same surface area as the entire country of Austria. It even has its own climate systems. Hell yes it should count, let alone the entire lake set. They’re more like inland freshwater seas.
And don’t they drain through navigable rivers all the way to the ocean? To me, landlocked means you can’t get on a boat and sail off to become a pirate. 🦜🏴☠️
Sure, aside from that pesky thing called Niagara Falls between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, yeah.
(Yes there’s a canal to get around it, I just thought it was a funny thing to overlook)
I did forget about it! I hear overlooking Niagara Falls is a fun thing to do. Or underlooking it. I guess sailing over it would be one way to get your pirate peg-leg, if you lived.
