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
Four Mile Lake (Ontario) Four Mile Lake (Ontario) Four Mile Lake is a lake in the city of Kawartha Lakes in Central Ontario, Canada. The lake is northeast of Coboconk, Ontario and west of Burnt River. It is one of the Kawartha Lakes series of lakes and is in the Great Lakes Basin. Four Mile Lake is a relatively shallow warm water lake with a surface area of . The lake is located in the sub watershed of Corben Creek and has a flushing rate of approximately five years. The lake is located on the boundary between two different geological land forms. The northern