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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