Who is the Queen of the Lakes Great Lakes?
Who is the Queen of the Lakes Great Lakes? Tregurtha is a Great Lakes-based bulk carrier freighter. She is the current Queen of the Lakes, an unofficial but widely recognized title given to the longest vessel active on the Great Lakes.
Which lake is named after a queen?
Lake Victoria, largest lake in Africa and chief reservoir of the Nile, lying mainly in Tanzania and Uganda but bordering on Kenya.
Why is Lake Superior called Gitche Gumee?
The Ojibwe name for the lake is gichi-gami (in syllabics: ????, pronounced gitchi-gami or kitchi-gami in different dialects), meaning great sea. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote this name as Gitche Gumee in the poem The Song of Hiawatha, as did Gordon Lightfoot in his song The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.