John Glenn, the former astronaut who was then a senator from Ohio, put it this way: "I know the Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

In the summer, people go there to ride horses, climb mountains, catch fish and take trips on the rivers and lakes.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

The Griffin was the one of the first sailing vessel on the Great Lakes and also among the first shipwrecks.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Most of the11 lakes contain cold water fisheries like trout as well as bass and other warm water fishing.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

This week on our program, we tell you about Lake Champlain and the Finger Lakes in the northeastern United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Almost sixty percent of the world's freshwater withdrawals from rivers, lakes and other water resources go toward irrigating fields.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

Many of the lakes around the Grand Tetons were formed millions of years ago by slow-moving sheets of ice.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

Some people say Paul Bunyan was the creation of storytellers from the middle western Great Lakes area of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Probably the first European to see and explore the Great Lakes was Frenchman Etienne Brule in the early sixteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

The Great Lakes Historical Shipwreck Society works to preserve and explain the history and importance of the area's wrecks.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

It may look like a natural environment of lakes and woodlands, but it was entirely built by human labor.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

The wreck of the Lady Elgin remains the worst loss of life on open water in the Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Lake Champlain also has the same kinds of environmental problems, including pollution and nonnative sea life, as the Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

This week,we tell about the biggest system of freshwater lakes in the world, the Great Lakes between the United States and Canada.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

The loss of the Griffin established a long tradition of danger and mystery linked to Great Lakes travel.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Many walls broke, allowing billions of liters of water from the Gulf of Mexico and two nearby lakes to flood the city.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

John Bachar was fifty-two years old when he fell from Dike Wall near his home in Mammoth Lakes,California.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

Still, there are similarities. Lake Champlain has wildlife and rock formations that are similar to or even the same as the Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Honeoye is among what are considered the 6 minor Finger Lakes in central and western New York.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Some of the biggest boats to ever sail the lakes have been lost in sudden November storms.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

The rock formations there are the result of deposits made by ancient lakes and rivers over a period of about twenty million years.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Support came from the Park Foundation,the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelly Foundation and the Great Lakes Fishery Trust.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

The program pays for water research at universities that border either the oceans or the Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

It is The Windy City. Chicago sits next to Lake Michigan, one of North America's Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

All but one of the Great Lakes has a name from Native American languages: Michigan,Huron,Erie and Ontario.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

And ships can reach the Atlantic Ocean from the Great Lakes through the Saint Lawrence Seaway.

VOA: special.2009.01.12