Great Lakes (disambiguation)

Great Lakes (disambiguation)

The term Great Lakes usually refers to:

* The Laurentian Great Lakes in North America or the surrounding Great Lakes region (North America) in the United States and the Canadian province of Ontario
* The African Great Lakes and the region

It can also refer to:

* Great Lakes Council, New South Wales, Australia
* Great Lake, Tasmania, Australia
* Great Lake (Britain), on the River Poulter in Nottinghamshire, England
* Great Lakes (band), a project of the Elephant Six Collective
* Great Lakes Aircraft Company, af ormer producer of aircraft based in the USA
* Great Lakes Brewing Company, based in Cleveland, Ohio
* Great Lakes Chemical Corporation, now part of Chemtura Corporation
* Great Lakes Institute of Management, based in Chennai, India
* Naval Station Great Lakes, a United States Navy base located north of Chicago, Illinois and home to the US Navy's Recruit Training Command and numerous other commands
* Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation, a lending body that specializes in educational loans
* The Great Lakes Region (Little League World Series), a U.S. region in baseball's Little League World Series

Some other lakes are called "Great".
* Great Bear Lake is the largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada and fourth largest in North America
* Great Slave Lake is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada
* Great Salt Lake, in the U.S. state of Utah, is the largest salt lake in the Western Hemisphere
* Great Salt Plains Lake is a manmade lake in Oklahoma in the United States
* Great Sacandaga Lake is a lake in the Adirondack Mountains of New York in the United States
* Great Bitter Lake on the Suez Canal in Egypt

ee also

* Fountain of the Great Lakes


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