Whitefish Bay
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There is also the village of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin on Lake Michigan.

Whitefish Point, showing the lighthouse and adjacent museum buildings.

Whitefish Bay 46°42′8″N 84°47′20″W / 46.70222, -84.78889 is a large bay on the eastern end of the southern shore of Lake Superior between Michigan and Ontario. It begins in the north and west at Whitefish Point in Michigan, about 10 miles north of Paradise, Michigan and ends at the St. Marys River at Sault Ste. Marie on the southeast. The eastern side of the bay on the Ontario side is more rugged, largely wilderness Canadian Shield. The international boundary runs through the bay, which is heavily used by shipping traffic northbound and southbound from the Soo Locks. The Whitefish Point Light marks the entry of the bay, Ile Parisienne Light¹is in the middle of the bay, and Point Iroquois Light lies near the mouth of the bay and the approach of the Soo Locks.

Whitefish Bay became the site of many shipwrecks after the Soo Locks opened in 1855. The Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve protects the shipwrecks in a portion of the bay for future generations of sports divers. Whitefish Point is the home of a former Coast Guard station and Whitefish Point Lighthouse is the oldest active light on Lake Superior. Part of the lighthouse station houses the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, which includes information on the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. The Point is a popular place for rock collectors, ship watchers, squirrel feeders, and spectacular bird watching. Whitefish Point's land and water provides a natural corridor for birds that makes it a migratory route of world significance.² It is a designated Important Bird Area³ where the Whitefish Point Bird Observatory⁴ conducts important research.

References

See also

• Shipwrecks of the 1913 Great Lakes storm

External links

• Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
• Satellite imagery of Whitefish point
• Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve
• Whitefish Point Bird Observatory

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