⚓ Shipwrecks Map

Lake Superior shipwrecks map

Lake Superior is a lake in central North America. The northernmost, westernmost, and highest of the Great Lakes, Lake Superior straddles the Canada–United States border with the Canadian province of Ontario to the north and east and the U.S. states of Minnesota to the west and Michigan and Wisconsin to the south. It is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area and the third-largest freshwater lake by volume. It drains into Lake Huron via St. Marys River, then through the lower Great Lakes to the St. Lawrence River and ultimately the Atlantic Ocean.

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

Quick answers

How many shipwrecks are on this map in Lake Superior?
33 wrecks with a recorded position, lost between 1877 and 1975.
Which Lake Superior wreck on this map lost the most lives?
SS Edmund Fitzgerald: 29 lives lost (Wikidata P1120 number of deaths).
What is the oldest Lake Superior wreck on this map?
SS Cumberland, lost in 1877.

All 33 Lake Superior wrecks

In date order; wrecks with no recorded date are listed last.

Other Great Lakes: Lake Michigan (45) · Lake Huron (10) · Lake Erie (2) · Lake Ontario (5). All Great Lakes shipwrecks →

Lake descriptions adapted from the Wikipedia article Lake Superior (revision 1376960626), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: first paragraph of the lead only, trimmed at sentence boundaries, pronunciation guides removed. No text added.

Wrecks are assigned to a lake from the Wikidata “located in or next to body of water” property where present, otherwise from the wreck position and Natural Earth lake outlines (public domain).