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
When he finally turned south, however, he met what may have been the fiercest tempest on Lake Superior in more than 60 years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
A federal judge in Madison, Wisconsin, last summer gave Enbridge three years to shut down part of Line 5 that runs across the reservation of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2024
Michaux’s voyages took him from Florida to Hudson’s Bay; the heroic Nuttall ventured as far as the shores of Lake Superior, going much of the way on foot for want of funds.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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