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The Great Lakes, located between the U.S. and Canada, are the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth. Lake Superior is the largest, deepest, and highest in elevation, containing over 300 shipwrecks.

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form the largest group of fresh water lakes on Earth

largest freshwater lake on Earth

U.S- Canadian Border: touching Ontario in Canada & Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, & New York in U.S

11th largest freshwater lake in the world

5th largest freshwater lake in the world

14th largest lake in the world

3rd largest freshwater lake in the world

The Great Lakes

Lake Ontario

easternmost great lake, lies at the base of Niagara Falls
only great lake that doesn't share a shoreline with Michigan
smallest of the great lakes in surface area
bounded by Ontario & NY

Lake Superior

contains over 300 shipwrecks
coldest, deepest, & highest in elevation of any of the lakes
its borders: Ontario & Minnesota, Michigan & Wisconsin
could contain all the great lakes plus three more lake erie's
largest of the great lakes

Lake Huron

was the first of the great lakes to be discovered by European explorers; scattered with shipwrecks
its borders are MI & Ontario
longest shoreline of all the lakes counting its 30,000 islands
2nd largest by surface area

Lake Michigan

its borders are IN, IL, MI & WI
nicknamed the third coast because of the amount of beaches
3rd largest in surface are, & 2nd largest by volume
only one entirely in U.S

Lake Erie

4th largest of the lakes in surface area & smallest by water volume
it borders NY, OH, PA & MI, & Ontario
southernmost, shallowest, warmest, and most biologically productive of the lakes