Largest shipwrecks on the Great Lakes Isaac M. Scott !scope="row"|"SS Charles S. Price Largest shipwrecks on the Great Lakes The Great Lakes are the largest bodies of freshwater in the world. They are five giant freshwater lakes, named Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Thousands of vessels have sailed on the lakes from the late 15th century to the present day. Thousands of ships sank on the lakes from 1679 when "LaSalle"'s wooden barque the "Le Griffon" was lost, to the 1975 sinking of the giant freighter "Edmund Fitzgerald" on Lake Superior. Many of these shipwrecks were never found, so the
Lake Eber has been mostly dried up. Up to 1992, the most important problem was water pollution. However, in 1992 the lake was declared as Natural Protected Area. (). and it is slowly recovering. In October 2018 it was reported that the lake had dried out completely. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/photo-one-of-turkeys-largest-freshwater-lakes-dries-up-completely-due-to-drought-138057#photo-12 Lake Eber Lake Eber is a fresh water lake in Afyon Province, Turkey. The lake is between the district centers of Çay, Bolvadin and Sultandağı of Afyon Province. The midpoint is at about . The altitude of the water surface with respect to sea level is . The surface area fluctuates and at times