Whitefish Point is known as the Graveyard of Ships as more vessels have been lost here than in any other part of the lake. Hundreds of vessels, including the famed Edmund Fitzgerald, lie on the bottom of the bay and the approaches. The lighthouse is at an end of an 80 mile stretch of shoreline known as Lake Superior's Shipwreck Coast. Gordon Lightfoot had a song about this place called the Edmund Fritzgerald....an excellent narrative. All crew members were lost in a horrific storm near this point. Which is why they had a shipwreck museum here also.
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