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The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is located at the Whitefish Point Light Station 11 miles (18 km) north of Paradise in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan.The light station property was transferred to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS), the Michigan Audubon Society (MAS), and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in 1996.
The Whitefish Point Light first established in 1849 is arguably the most important light on Lake Superior. [3] More vessels have been lost in the Whitefish Point area than any other part of Lake Superior. [3] Between the loss of the Invincible in 1816 and the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, the Whitefish Point area has claimed at ...
“Our mission is to preserve the lights and stations that warned mariners and to honor those who perished in shipwrecks,” said Bruce Lynn, executive director for the Great Lakes Shipwreck ...
The former 44-acre Coast Guard site at Whitefish Point consists of 2.7 acres transferred to the Michigan Audubon Society and the Whitefish Point Bird Observatory, 8.3 acres transferred to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, and 33 acres transferred to the US Fish and Wildlife Service administered by Seney National Wildlife Refuge.
The "Fitz" sank on Nov. 10, 1975, not far from Whitefish Point, during a fierce November storm on Lake Superior. ... Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum — Whitefish Point Light Station in Paradise. The ...
Whitefish Point is a cape of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, United States, marking the entry point of Whitefish Bay. It is 11 miles (18 km) north of the unincorporated community of Paradise, Michigan. Whitefish Point is known for the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, its Lake Superior shoreline, the Whitefish Point Lighthouse and
A crew from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society found her about 40 miles northwest of Whitefish Point, resting 650 feet below the surface of Lake Superior.
Artifacts from the Mather's wreck are on display in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum as a loan from the State of Michigan by a 1993 settlement agreement with the GLSHS following the DNR raid on the museum in 1992. [6] The Samuel Mather's wreck in now protected by the Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve as part of an underwater museum.