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'''Lake Superior''' is the largest of the [[Great Lakes]], located in the [[United States]] sharing the border with [[Canada]]. Lake Superior is the largest fresh water lake in the world.

'''Lake Superior''' is bounded by [[Ontario]], [[Canada]] and [[Minnesota]], [[USA]], to the north and [[Wisconsin]] and [[Michigan]], USA, to the south. It is the largest of [[North America]]'s [[Great Lakes]]. It is the largest freshwater lake in the world (by surface area) and is the world's fourth-largest freshwater lake (by volume).

 

In the [[Ojibwa]] language, the lake is called "Gichigami" which translates literally as "big water." It is better known as "Gitche Gumee" as recorded by Henry Wadsworth [[Longfellow]] in [[The Song of Hiawatha]]. Lake Superior is referred to as "Gitche Gumee" in the song [[The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald|''The Wreck of the'' Edmund Fitzgerald]], by [[Gordon Lightfoot]].

 

The lake was named ''le lac supérieur'', or "Upper Lake," in the seventeenth century by [[French people|French]] [[explorer]]s because it was located above [[Lake Huron]].

 

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