Lake Superior
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The largest freshwater lake in the world, Lake Superior is the largest, highest in elevation, and deepest of the Great Lakes.
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Others created AI-generated images of Somali “founders” planting flags on the shores of Lake Superior.
From Salon • Dec. 8, 2025
Monday marked the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which went down during a ferocious storm in Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975.
From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025
As the Edmund Fitzgerald headed into Lake Superior, McSorley received reports of worsening weather.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
The city, located on Lake Superior, is far enough north that the sun sets at around 10 p.m. in the summer, Pepe says, and that helps make up for their cold dark winters.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024
By 1000 a.d., trade relationships had covered the continent for more than a thousand years; mother-of- pearl from the Gulf of Mexico has been found in Manitoba, and Lake Superior copper in Louisiana.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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