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Lake Superior
Lake Superior ((フランス語:Lac Supérieur)) is the largest of the Great Lakes of North America. The lake is shared by Canada's Ontario to the north, the United States' Minnesota to the west, and the United States' Wisconsin and Michigan to the south. It is generally considered the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area, unless Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are considered to be a single, larger lake.〔"(Michigan and Huron: One Lake or Two )?" Pearson Education, Inc: Information Please Database, 2007.〕 It is the world's third-largest freshwater lake by volume and the largest by volume in North America.〔(Superior Pursuit: Facts About the Greatest Great Lake – Minnesota Sea Grant ) University of Minnesota. Retrieved on August 9, 2007.〕
==Name==
The Ojibwe call the lake ''gichi-gami'' (pronounced as ''gitchi-gami'' and ''kitchi-gami'' in other dialects),〔(Kitchi-Gami Almanac – The Name ). lakesuperior.com. January 1, 2006〕 meaning "be a great sea." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the name as "Gitche Gumee" in The Song of Hiawatha, as did Gordon Lightfoot in his song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". According to other sources the actual Ojibwe name is ''Ojibwe Gichigami'' ("Ojibwe's Great Sea") or ''Anishinaabe Gichigami'' ("Anishinaabe's Great Sea").〔Under the Shadow of the Gods: A guide to the History of the Canadian Shore of Lake Superior by Barbara Chisholm & Andrea Gutsche 1st edition 1998 printed bound in Canada by Transcontinental Printing Inc〕 The 1878 dictionary by Father Frederic Baraga, the first one written for the Ojibway language, gives the Ojibwe name as Otchipwe-kitchi-gami (reflecting ''Ojibwe Gichigami'').〔 The first French explorers approaching the great inland sea by way of the Ottawa River and Lake Huron during the 17th century referred to their discovery as ''le lac supérieur''. Properly translated, the expression means "Upper Lake," that is, the lake above Lake Huron. The lake was also called ''Lac Tracy'' (named for Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy) by 17th century Jesuit missionaries.〔(Great Lakes Atlas ), Environment Canada and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1995.〕 The British, upon taking control of the region from the French in the 1760s following the French and Indian War, anglicized the lake's name to ''Superior'', "on account of its being superior in magnitude to any of the lakes on that vast continent."〔George R. Stewart, "Names on the Land, A historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States," 1945, p. 83〕
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