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 Bonney SE Lake Bonney SE Lake Bonney SE (alternative name: Coonunda or Canunda) is a coastal freshwater lake located in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia in the gazetted locality of Canunda. With a surface area of , the lake is one of the largest freshwater lakes in Australia. The lake is located south east of Adelaide and south west of Millicent. The Canunda National Park lies adjacent to the lake shore. The lake was named Lake Bonney in 1844 by George Grey, the then Governor of South Australia. The name was proposed in 1916 to be changed by the Nomenclature