Great Lakes
The Great Lakes are an important water system of North America for transportation, commerce, and recreation; they lie mostly on the border between the United States of America and Canada.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Notable Places in the Area
Fourteen Foot Shoal Light
Photo: Cwbash, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The lighthouse at Fourteen Foot Shoal was named to note that the lake is only 14 feet deep at this point, which is a hazard to navigation, ships and mariners.
Localities in the Area
Cheboygan
Cheboygan is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat and largest settlement of Cheboygan County.Great Lakes
- Type: Lake
- Description: group of lakes in North America
- Categories: group of interconnected lakes and body of water
- Location: United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.68751° or 45° 41' 15" northLongitude
-84.43753° or 84° 26' 15" westElevation
177 metres (581 feet)Open Location Code
86QQMHQ6+2XGeoNames ID
4994594Wikidata ID
Q7347Great Lakes Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Igelmimen imeqqranen
- Afrikaans: Groot Mere
- Albanian: Liqenet e Mëdha
- Amharic: ታላላቁ ሀይቆች
- Arabic: Mga Dumagko nga Danaw
- Arabic: البحيرات الخمس العظمى
- Arabic: البحيرات العظمى
- Arabic: البحيرات الكبرى
- Arabic: بحيرات عظمى (أمريكا الشمالية)
- Arabic: بحيرات عظمى (أمريكا الشماليه)
- Arabic: بحيرات عظمى (كندا)
- Arabic: بحيرات كبرى
- Aragonese: Grans Lacos d'America d'o Norte
- Armenian: Մեծ Լճեր
- Assamese: বৃহৎ হ্ৰদসমূহ
- Asturian: Grandes Llagos
- Azerbaijani: Böyük göllər
- Bashkir: Бөйөк күлдәр
- Basque: Aintzira Handiak
- Basque: Amerikako Aintzira Handiak
- Bavarian: Grousse Seen
- Belarusian: Вялікія азёры
- Bengali: বৃহৎ হ্রদসমূহ
- Bhojpuri: ग्रेट लेक्स
- Bhojpuri: बड़की झील
- Bhojpuri: बिसाल झील
- Bosnian: Velika jezera
- Breton: Lennoù Meur Amerika
- Bulgarian: Големите езера
- Burmese: ဂရိတ်လိတ်
- Catalan: Grans Llacs
- Catalan: Grans Llacs d'Amèrica del Nord
- Central Kurdish: زەریاچە گەورەکان
- Chechen: Даккхий Ӏаьмнаш
- Chechen: Доккхий Ӏаьмнаш
- Chinese: Gō͘-toā-ô͘
- Chinese: 五大湖
- Chuvash: Мăн кӳлĕсем
- Cornish: An Lynnyn Meur
- Corsican: Grandi Lavi
- Crimean Tatar: Büyük göller
- Croatian: Velika jezera
- Czech: Velká jezera
- Danish: Store søer
- Dutch: Grote Meren
- Egyptian Arabic: البحيرات العظيمه
- Egyptian Arabic: بحيرات عظيمه
- English: Great Lakes of North America
- English: Laurentian Great Lakes
- Esperanto: Grandaj Lagoj
- Estonian: Suur järvistu
- Faroese: Stóruvøtn
- Fiji Hindi: Great Lakes
- Finnish: Isotjärvet
- Finnish: Pohjois-Amerikan Isotjärvet
- Finnish: Suuret järvet
- French: Grands Lacs
- French: Grands Lacs d'Amérique du Nord
- Galician: Grandes Lagos, América do Norte
- Georgian: დიდი ტბები
- German: Great Lakes
- German: Grosse Seen
- German: Große Seen
- Greek: Μεγάλες Λίμνες
- Guianese Creole French: Gran Lak (Amérik di Nò)
- Guianese Creole French: Gran Lak
- Hebrew: הימות הגדולות
- Hindi: विशाल झीलें
- Hungarian: Nagy-tavak
- Icelandic: Vötnin miklu
- Ido: Granda Lagi
- Iloko: Nalatak a Dandanaw
- Indonesian: Danau-Danau Besar
- Interlingua: Grande Lacos
- Irish: Na Lochanna Móra
- Italian: Grandi Laghi
- Japanese: 五大湖
- Kabardian: Псыхъуреишхуэхэр
- Kabiyè: Amerika nɛ hayi kiŋ kujomiŋ
- Kabyle: Igelmimen Imeqranen
- Kannada: ಅಮೇರಿಕಾದ ಮಹಾಸರೋವರಗಳು
- Kannada: ಮಹಾ ಸರೋವರಗಳು
- Kazakh: Ұлы көлдер
- Kirghiz: Улуу көлдөр
- Korean: 오대호
- Kurdish: Golên Mezin
- Ladin: Gragn Lec
- Lao: Nalatak a Dandanaw
- Latin: Lacus Magni
- Latvian: Lielie ezeri
- Limburgan: Groeate Maere
- Lingua Franca Nova: Lagos Grande
- Lithuanian: Didieji ežerai
- Lojban: banli lalxu
- Low German: Grote Seen
- Luxembourgish: Grouss Séien (Nordamerika)
- Luxembourgish: Grouss Séien
- Macedonian: Големи Езера
- Maithili: विशाल तालसभ
- Malay: Tasik-Tasik Besar
- Malay: Tasik-Tasik Besar Amerika
- Malayalam: മഹാതടാകങ്ങൾ
- Marathi: ग्रेट लेक्स
- Min Nan Chinese: Gō͘-toā-ô͘
- Mingrelian: დიდი ტობეფი
- Mingrelian: კაბეტი ტობეფი
- Mirandese: Grandes Lagos
- Mongolian: Их нуурууд
- Moroccan Arabic: الضايات لكبار
- Nepali: ग्रेत लेक्स
- Nepali: विशाल ताल
- Nepali: विशाल तालहरू
- Newari: ग्रेट लेक
- Northern Frisian: Grat Sian
- Northern Sami: Stuorra jávrrit
- Norwegian: De store sjøer
- Norwegian Bokmål: De store sjøer
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Dei store sjøane
- Occitan (post 1500): Grands Lacs
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܝܡܡܬܐ ܪܘܪܒܬܐ
- Panjabi: ਮਹਾਨ ਝੀਲਾਂ
- Persian: دریاچههای بزرگ
- Piemontese: Grand Lagh
- Piemontese: Ij Grand Lagh
- Polish: Wielkie Jeziora
- Polish: Wielkie Jeziora Północnoamerykańskie
- Portuguese: Grandes Lagos da América do Norte
- Romanian: Marile Lacuri
- Russia Buriat: Ехэ нуурнууд
- Russian: Великие озёра
- Rusyn: Великы озера
- Samogitian: Dėdlė̅jė ežerā
- Scots: Great Lochs
- Serbian: Велика језера
- Serbo-Croatian: Iglmamn mqqurnin
- Serbo-Croatian: Velika jezera
- Slovak: Veľké kanadské jazerá
- Slovenian: Velika jezera
- South Azerbaijani: بؤیوک گؤللر
- Spanish: Grandes Lagos
- Swahili: Maziwa makubwa ya Amerika Kaskazini
- Swedish: Stora sjöarna
- Swiss German: Großi See
- Tachelhit: Iglmamn mqqurnin
- Tagalog: Gran Lagos
- Tagalog: Mga Malalaking Lawa
- Tamil: அமெரிக்கப் பேரேரிகள்
- Tatar: Бөек күлләр
- Telugu: మహా సరస్సులు
- Thai: เกรตเลกส์
- Tosk Albanian: Große Seen
- Turkish: Büyük Göller
- Turkmen: Beýik köller
- Udmurt: Быдӟым тыос
- Ukrainian: Великі Озера
- Upper Sorbian: Wulke jězory
- Urdu: عظیم جھیلیں
- Uzbek: Buyuk koʻllar
- Venetian: Grandi Laghi de l'Amèrica
- Venetian: Grandi Laghi de la Merica
- Veps: Sured järved
- Vietnamese: Ngũ Đại Hồ
- Vietnamese: Năm Hồ Lớn
- Võro: Suur järvistü
- Waray (Philippines): Dagko nga mga Danaw
- Welsh: Y Llynnoedd Mawr
- Western Frisian: Grutte Marren
- Western Panjabi: وڈیاں جھیلاں
- Wu Chinese: 五大湖
- Yakut: Улуу күөллэр
- Yiddish: גרויסע אזערעס
- Yue Chinese: 五大湖
- Dėdlė̄jė ežerā
- Granne Laghe
- Lake Erie
- Lake Huron
- Lake Michigan
- Lake Ontario
- Lake Superior
- Lynnyn Meur Amerika
- Lèg grand
- Великі озера
- دەریاچە گەورەکان
Other Places Named Great Lakes
In the Area
Localities
- Point NipigonHamlet, 10 km west
- Grand ViewHamlet, 13 km west
- High BanksHamlet, 14 km east
- Orchard BeachHamlet, 15 km south
- AlvernoHamlet, 15 km south
- Mullett LakeHamlet, 16 km southwest
Landmarks
- Lighthouse PointCape
- Cheboygan PointCape, 2½ km south
- Gull IslandIslet, 3½ km north
- Duncan BayBay, 4 km south
- Cheboygan Crib LighthouseLighthouse, 4 km southwest
- Packard PointCape, 4 km north
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Great Lakes. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.