| I think the point is that the great lakes via the St. Lawrence seaway have direct access to the ocean. You can put goods on a ship in Erie, PA and transport them to Hong Kong or any other ocean port without ever having to put them on a truck or a train, and send them through another state. That is a reasonable argument that, it is not landlocked. You may not agree, but it is a rational basis for saying they are not landlocked, as opposed to Nevada which borders Lake Tahoe, but you couldn't ship anything farther than California, or Missouri, where you would have to ship on a flat-bottomed river barge and then shift the cargo to an ocean-going vessel before it can cross the ocean. Other than Sporcle fans like us who don't need a reason, the reason people care about places being landlocked is commerce. |
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