A geographic name meaning "far end of the lake" in French, and used for three very different places by early writers: 1, a city at the southern end of Lake Winnebago that still retains the name; 2, a river at the western end of Lake Superior now called St. Louis River; and 3, the western end of Lake Superior where the modern cities of Duluth and Superior are located. In all three cases, the location was the furthest point on a lake from the spot where French travelers normally entered.

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[Source: Doty, James, "Diaries of a tour in northern Wisconsin" and McKenney, Thomas, "Letters from a Treaty Council held at Fond du Lac with the Ojibwe in August 1826" at at Turning Points in Wis. History (www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/)]