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Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum

Index Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is located at the Whitefish Point Light Station north of Paradise in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. [1]

49 relations: American Institute of Certified Planners, Bart Stupak, Chippewa County, Michigan, Comet (steamboat), Cornus canadensis, Cypripedioideae, Diaphone, Easement, Foghorn, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Storm of 1913, Important Bird Area, John M. Osborn, Labrador tea, Light-emitting diode, List of Great Lakes museum and historic ships, List of shipwrecks of the 1913 Great Lakes storm, Michigan, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Miztec (schooner barge), National Audubon Society, National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Paradise, Michigan, Piping plover, Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Shelldrake, Michigan, SS Edmund Fitzgerald, SS John B. Cowle (1902), SS M.M. Drake (1882), SS Myron, SS Sagamore (1892), SS Samuel Mather (1887), SS Vienna, State historic preservation office, The Evening News (Sault Ste. Marie), Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, Trientalis borealis, U.S. state, United States Coast Guard, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Life-Saving Service, USA Today, Whitefish Bay, Whitefish Point Bird Observatory, Whitefish Point Light, Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve, Whitefish Township, Michigan.

American Institute of Certified Planners

The American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) is the American Planning Association's professional institute.

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Bart Stupak

Bartholomew Thomas "Bart" Stupak (born February 29, 1952) is an American politician and lobbyist.

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Chippewa County, Michigan

Chippewa County is a county in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Comet (steamboat)

SS Comet was a steamship that operated on the Great Lakes.

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Cornus canadensis

Cornus canadensis (Canadian dwarf cornel, Canadian bunchberry, quatre-temps, crackerberry, creeping dogwood) is a species of flowering plant in the Cornaceae (dogwood) family, native to eastern Asia (Japan, Korea, northeastern China (Jilin Province) and the Russian Far East), the northern United States, Colorado, New Mexico, Canada and Greenland.

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Cypripedioideae

Lady's slipper orchids (also known as lady slipper orchids or slipper orchids) are orchids in the subfamily Cypripedioideae, which comprises the genera Cypripedium, Mexipedium, Paphiopedilum, Phragmipedium and Selenipedium.

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Diaphone

The diaphone is a noisemaking device best known for its use as a foghorn: It can produce deep, powerful tones, able to carry a long distance.

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Easement

An easement is a nonpossessory right to use and/or enter onto the real property of another without possessing it.

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Foghorn

A foghorn is a fog signal that uses sound to warn vehicles of navigational hazards like rocky coastlines, or boats of the presence of other vessels, in foggy conditions.

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Great Lakes

The Great Lakes (les Grands-Lacs), also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located primarily in the upper mid-east region of North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River.

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Great Lakes Storm of 1913

The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, historically referred to as the "Big Blow," the "Freshwater Fury," or the "White Hurricane," was a blizzard with hurricane-force winds that devastated the Great Lakes Basin in the Midwestern United States and the province of Ontario in Canada from November 7 through November 10, 1913.

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Important Bird Area

An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.

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John M. Osborn

The John M Osborn was a wooden steam barge that sank in Lake Superior in 1884 with the loss of five lives.

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Labrador tea

Labrador tea is a common name for the three closely related plant species and the name of an herbal tea made from the plants: All three species are primarily wetland plants in the heath family.

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Light-emitting diode

A light-emitting diode (LED) is a two-lead semiconductor light source.

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List of Great Lakes museum and historic ships

This is a list of Great Lakes museum and historic ships, including surviving hulls, museum or historic ships at risk, other surviving historic hulls and notable partial ships.

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List of shipwrecks of the 1913 Great Lakes storm

This is a list of shipwrecks during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.

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Michigan Department of Natural Resources

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is the agency of the state of Michigan charged with maintaining natural resources such as state parks, state forests, and recreation areas.

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Miztec (schooner barge)

The Miztec was built as a 3-masted schooner in 1890.

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National Audubon Society

The National Audubon Society (Audubon) is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation.

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National Historic Preservation Act of 1966

The National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA; Public Law 89-665; 54 U.S.C. 300101 et seq.) is legislation intended to preserve historical and archaeological sites in the United States of America.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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Paradise, Michigan

Paradise is an unincorporated community in Whitefish Township, Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Piping plover

The piping plover (Charadrius melodus) is a small sand-colored, sparrow-sized shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches in North America.

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Seney National Wildlife Refuge

The Seney National Wildlife Refuge is a managed wetland in Schoolcraft County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Shelldrake, Michigan

Shelldrake is a ghost town in Whitefish Township, Chippewa County, Michigan, United States, about south of Whitefish Point, Michigan at the mouth of the Shelldrake River (also known as the Betsy River) on Whitefish Bay.

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald

SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29.

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SS John B. Cowle (1902)

The SS John B. Cowle (1902) was one of the early Great Lakes bulk freighters known as "tin pans".

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SS M.M. Drake (1882)

The SS M.M. Drake was a wooden steam barge that towed consorts loaded with coal and iron ore on the Great Lakes.

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SS Myron

SS Myron was a wooden steamship built in 1888.

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SS Sagamore (1892)

The SS Sagamore is reported to be the best example of a whaleback barge among Great Lakes shipwrecks.

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SS Samuel Mather (1887)

The SS Samuel Mather (1887) was the first of seven U.S. merchant ships to bear that name.

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SS Vienna

Six merchant ships have been named Vienna.

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State historic preservation office

The state historic preservation office (SHPO) is a state governmental function created by the United States federal government in 1966 under Section 101 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA).

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The Evening News (Sault Ste. Marie)

The Sault News is the main daily and newspaper of record of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, United States.

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Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century

The United States federal Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) was a federal transportation bill enacted June 9, 1998, as Public Law 105-178.

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Trientalis borealis

Trientalis borealis, synonym Lysimachia borealis, also known as the starflower, is a North American woodland perennial that blooms between May and June.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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United States Coast Guard

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's seven uniformed services.

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United States Fish and Wildlife Service

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS or FWS) is an agency of the federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats.

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United States Life-Saving Service

The United States Life-Saving Service was a United States government agency that grew out of private and local humanitarian efforts to save the lives of shipwrecked mariners and passengers.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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Whitefish Bay

Whitefish Bay is a large bay on the eastern end of the southern shore of Lake Superior between Michigan and Ontario.

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Whitefish Point Bird Observatory

The Whitefish Point Bird Observatory (WPBO) is located in Chippewa County, Michigan, USA, adjacent to the Whitefish Point Unit of the Seney National Wildlife Refuge.

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Whitefish Point Light

The Whitefish Point Light, a lighthouse in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, is the oldest operating light on Lake Superior.

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Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve

The Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve was established in 1987 to protect and conserve shipwrecks and historical resources on of Lake Superior bottomlands in Whitefish Bay and around Whitefish Point, Michigan.

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Whitefish Township, Michigan

Whitefish Township is a civil township of Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Shipwreck_Museum

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