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The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum has become one of Michigan’s most popular destinations in the cultural tourism industry, attracting nearly 100,000 visitors each season. Museum patrons learn about the perils of maritime transport on the Great Lakes at the Whitefish Point Light Station, an historic site on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is one of Michigan’s most popular tourism destinations, attracting over 75,000 visitors each year. Museum guests discover the dramatic stories of shipwreck and survival on the Great Lakes at Whitefish Point, a National Historic Site.
Whitefish Point marks the eastern end of a notorious 80-mile stretch of shoreline from here west to Munising, Michigan, known ominously as Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast. Of the 550 known major shipwrecks lying on the bottom of the lake, at least 200 of them are in the vicinity of Whitefish Point.
Museum patrons learn about the perils of maritime transport on the Great Lakes at the Whitefish Point Light Station, an Historic Site on the National Register of Historic Places. See the Whitefish Point Light Tower, in continuous operation since 1861, the oldest operating lighthouse on Lake Superior.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was lost with her entire crew of 29 men on Lake Superior November 10, 1975, 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan. Whitefish Point is the site of the Whitefish Point Light Station and Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum.
The Shipwreck Coast Museum Store is located in the historic Weather Bureau Building in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Visitors will find a large selection of seasonal clothing, books, items to remember the Edmund Fitzgerald, kitchen accoutrements and a variety of gifts.
To be clear, the ceremony at Whitefish Point this November 10th is closed to the public. You can watch it online from your home or watch from the Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven, as they will be rebroadcasting the livestream at 260 Dyckman Ave, South Haven, MI. Call (269) 637-8078 for more information.
The camera at Whitefish Point will allow people to log onto our Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society website (shipwreckmuseum.com), and see beautiful views of the lighthouse, sunrises, freighters, storms and sometimes even the Northern Lights.
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society was founded in 1978 by a group of divers, teachers, and educators to commence exploration of historic shipwrecks in eastern Lake Superior, near Whitefish Point in Michigan’s scenic Upper Peninsula.
On November 14, a U.S. Navy plane equipped with a magnetic anomaly detector located a strong contact 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point. During the following three days, the Coast Guard cutter Woodrush, using a sidescan sonar, located two large pieces of wreckage in the same area.