Lighthouse at Whitefish Point
by Nick Zelinsky Jr
Title
Lighthouse at Whitefish Point
Artist
Nick Zelinsky Jr
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Photograph
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Whitefish Point Lighthouse MI.
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. The primary causes of shipwreck here are stress of weather and collision; the 1975 loss of the steamer Edmund Fitzgerald with her entire crew of 29 has become a world-wide legend. The wreck of the Fitzgerald lies just 15 miles northwest of Whitefish Point.
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March 15th, 2015
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