⚓ Shipwrecks Map

Great Lakes shipwrecks map

The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border. The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario (though hydrologically, Michigan and Huron are a single body of water, joined at the Straits of Mackinac). The Great Lakes Waterway enables modern travel and shipping by water among the lakes. The lakes connect ultimately to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River as their primary drainage outflow.

95 wreck positions, coloured by era. Tap a dot for the wreck page. Positions may be approximate; not for navigation.

Shipwrecks by lake

LakeWrecks on this map
Lake Michigan45
Lake Superior33
Lake Huron10
Lake Ontario5
Lake Erie2

Quick answers

Which Great Lake has the most shipwrecks on this map?
Lake Michigan, with 45 of the 95 Great Lakes wrecks mapped here. These are wrecks notable enough to have a Wikipedia article or an official record, not every wreck in the lakes.
What is the deadliest Great Lakes wreck on this map?
SS Edmund Fitzgerald (Lake Superior), with 29 lives lost.

All 95 Great Lakes wrecks

Lake descriptions adapted from the Wikipedia article Great Lakes (revision 1379976071), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: first paragraph of the lead only, trimmed at sentence boundaries, pronunciation guides removed. No text added.