North America's famous Great Lakes,Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario, are known worldwide for their massive size ...

Three of North America’s five Great Lakes are pictured in this Envisat image: Lake Huron (left), Lake Ontario (right) and lake Erie (bottom). About 100 000 years ago, a major […] ...

The Great Lakes have been known to generate waves of more than 25 feet. They can sink lake freighters over 500 feet long when this happens. Lake Erie is booby-trapped with reefs, numerous sand ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the Great Lakes account for 21% of the world’s freshwater and 84% of North America's surface fresh water. That’s in line with what Burke said. We ...

AT one time glaciers—perhaps in the co-operative society of an ice-sheet—were gravely suspected of having excavated even the great lakes of North America. This, however, is hardly probable.

The Great Lakes formed where they did 20,000 years ago thanks to a hotspot that sat under the supercontinent Pangaea 300 million years ago, before North America even existed.