You can locate some of the Great Lakes’ shipwrecks thanks to this mashup.
The interactive map features about 120 nautical disasters – although Great Lakes historian Dave Swayze estimates more than 4,000 ships have been lost to the lakes.
Each dot represents a shipwreck. Some contain information about how the ship went down, such as the Appomattox. The large wooden steamer hit ground on the western shore of Lake Michigan more than a century ago. It wasn’t the only ship to go down off the coast of Milwaukee.
The mashup is the product of an urban planning class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Related story: Book tells tales of tragic Lake Huron freighter sinking.
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100 years after ore boat disappeared in Lake Superior storm, searchers locate wreck
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/269445/publisher_ID/36/
i am interested in the shipwrecls of lake Erie,of the shores in western new york and erie,pa.
O would like a squeese bear,
WNL
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