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
Green Lake (Hawaii) Green Lake (Hawaii) Green Lake () was a freshwater lake in Puʻu Kapoho crater on the island of Hawaii. With a surface area of and a maximum depth of , it was the largest natural freshwater lake in the Hawaiian Islands, and besides Lake Waiau one of two freshwater lakes on the Big Island. Hawaiian myths state that the lake was the first place visited by Pele, the volcano deity. The lake was a popular swimming spot for locals and tourists. Extensive vegetation, mainly "hibiscus tiliaceus", overhung the lake, shading about twenty percent of the lake's surface. On June 2,