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==Name==
==Name==
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]].
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]]'', 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]].
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]].