This lake has over 80 species of fish including bloater, brook trout, lake trout, northern pike, chinook salmon and rainbow smelt. Lake Superior is well known among anglers for being one of the best bodies of water for fishing. On the southern shore of the lake between Grand Marais and Whitefish Point is known as the 'Graveyard of the Great Lakes', as many wrecked ships can still be found under the waters surface. The lake has always been important in the Great Lakes Waterway, but with this comes many historical shipwrecks. The first to inhabit the lake were known as the Plano. The Chippewa were not the first to discover Lake Superior though, its earliest history dates back about 10,000 years ago after the last Ice Age. Lake Superior was called 'Kitchi-Gummi or (Great Water) by the Chippewa Native Americans. Waves on Lake Superior can exceed 30 feet and the lake area population is that of 607,000, making it the least developed of the Great Lakes as well. The lake's 20,288,000 acre surface area is larger than the state of South Carolina and stretches more than 350 miles in length and 160 miles in width.

Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes of North America and reigns as the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area. About Lake Superior The Largest Great Lake and Freshwater Lake in the World

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