The Great Lakes,Superior,Michigan,Huron,Erie,Ontario.

Facts and Figures about the Great Lakes | US EPA

The Great Lakes are, from west to east: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario. They are a dominant part of the physical and cultural heritage of North America.

Shared with Canada and spanning more than 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) from west to east, these vast inland freshwater seas provide water for consumption, transportation, power, recreation and a host of other uses.

The Great Lakes are one of the world’s largest surface freshwater ecosystems.

• 84% of North America's surface fresh water
• about 21% of the world's supply of surface fresh water

There are many pieces of information regarding the sad loss of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald
SS Edmund Fitzgerald - Wikipedia
SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there. She was located in deep water on November 14, 1975, by a U.S. Navy aircraft detecting magnetic anomalies, and found soon afterwards to be in two large pieces.

 

There is a WW2 link as the USN had / has a large basic training depot beside Lake Michigan. Official site: https://www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrma/installations/ns_great_lakes.html and Naval Station Great Lakes - Wikipedia

Now many years ago during the 'Cold War' there was a proposal to build small submarines with sea-launched ballistic missiles to operate in the Great Lakes (not all of them) as advances in location technology would not apply (unless Canada was hostile).

See: Are U.S. submarine locations really unknon to our enemies? and an online discussion (so a warning): https://www.quora.com/What-happened...t-hard-for-the-Russians-to-pinpoint-locations

 

The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Fitzgerald

 

Article at "The Economist"... Is the Caspian a sea or a lake?

 

Only discovered USS Wolverine and USS Sable last month.

USS Wolverine (IX-64)

The Great Lakes Aircraft Carriers

 

On the plot above.
The inlet to the east of Lake Huron is Georgian Bay with Tobermory and a ferry link at the West on the peninsula.

It took me 4 days to drive round that inlet back in 1981.

 

I was able to visit Michigan for the first time in 2020. Previously, my only experience with water visible to the horizon was an ocean.

 

H.O.M.E.S. defines the Great Lakes region

 

I lived 1 mile from the south shore of Lake Ontario most of my life. Many of my memories and stories revolve around that big lake. Right now the areas SE of the lakes are experiencing the infamous "Lake Effect" snow storms.

 

All 64k tonnes of her, 1000' long. See: M/V Mesabi Miner

 

I somehow thought that Canada had more of the lakes' coastline than the US, but we don't - it's close but the US has more. Per wikipedia - and this is just an estimate - Canada has 8400km of coastline and the US has 8500. That's 49.7% and 50.3%.

 

Hmmmm, I’ve checked the above and this is the numbers I have found

CANADA
202,080 km
Ranked 1st. 10 times more than United States

USA
19,924 km
Ranked 9th

Canada vs United States: Geography Facts and Stats

Canada measures approximately 151,019 miles long
The Coastline Of Canada, The Longest In The World

United States has the eighth longest coastline in the world. According to NOAA, the total length of the country's coastline is 95,471 miles or 153652.12 km
US States With The Longest Coastlines

Their are so many “sources” and all give different numbers but all I’ve looked at indicated Canada’s coast line is Longer than the USA

 

I was only looking at the coastline of the Great Lakes, Temujin.

 

Oh, sorry……

 

But which country has more eastern shoreline on the lakes? I lived on the eastern shore of Ontario for a couple of years and lake effect snow has to be experienced to be believed.

From Don Paul, a primer on lake-effect snow

 

Most terrifying moment in my life was being caught out on Lake Superior in a canoe when a storm was blowing up. We weren't that far from shore but it came up fast. Lost sight of the shore, all we could see was waves.
I'm not a religious person but I said a few prayers that day.

I've been on both the Atlantic and Pacific for some rough weather but that one still sticks with me.

The Great Lakes are amazing, powerful, beautiful and scary at times. Love living close to them.

 

Another phenomenon, Ice Volcanos. My wife went a university on Lake Ontario southern shore. Any student seen on the ice would be expelled.

 

Yep. I went to State University of New York at Oswego. The ice was spectacular. The breaking waves would form an ice cliff 20 feet high on shore and then freeze out over the horizon. Seeing the sun set in the west over the frozen waves and snow was something.

Once or twice a year we had to climb out of the second story window onto the enclosed porch roof to shovel off the snow so that we could get the front door open. It stuck from the weight.

By the way, fighting with Canadian fisherman in the bars was NOT recommended.