Lake Erie
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Lake Erie is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great
Lake Erie on May 28, 2022, taken from the International Space Station
Walk in Water, built in Buffalo, was the first steamship on Lake Erie. Picture c. 1816.
Battle of Lake Erie (1865) by William H. Powell depicts US Navy commander Oliver Hazard Perry
At an Ohio history festival, the 19th-century style brig warship Niagara passes the Lorain lighthouse.
Lake Ontario
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Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the U.S. state of New Yo
Lake Erie
…Welland Canal, part of the Saint Lawrence Seaway, which diverts water for ship passages from Port Colborne, Ontario, on Lake Erie, to St. Catharines on Lake Ontario, an elevation difference of 326 ft (99 m). Lake Erie's environmental health has been an ongoing concern for decades, with issues such as overfishing…
Lake Ontario seen from the International Space Station on August 24, 2013. The cloudy substance is algal bloom.
Hamilton Harbour frozen over. Ice sheets can form along the shoreline of Lake Ontario during the winter.
USS General Pike and HMS Wolfe prepare for action on September 28, 1813. The battle was one of several engagements that took place on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812.
Marilyn Bell Park in Toronto