The Great Lakes are a collection of five large lakes in the Northeastern United States and Southeastern Canada.

Great Lakes or Great Lake may also refer to:

  • Great Lakes region, the area near the Great Lakes in the United States and Canada

Lakes

  • African Great Lakes, a collection of lakes in and around the Great Rift Valley in eastern Africa
  • Great Lake (Tasmania), a lake in Australia
  • Perth Wetlands or Great Lakes District, in Perth, Western Australia
  • Tonlé Sap or Great Lake, a lake in Cambodia
  • Great Lake, a lake on the River Poulter in Nottinghamshire, UK

Fictional

  • The Great Lake, a minor place in Arda in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth

Military

  • Naval Station Great Lakes, a United States Navy base
  • USS Great Lakes, a planned destroyer tender of the United States Navy that was cancelled in 1946

Music

  • Great Lakes (band), a project of the Elephant Six Collective
  • The Great Lakes (album), an album by Emm Gryner

Transportation

  • Great Lakes Airlines, a United States regional airline based in Denver, Colorado
  • Great Lakes Aircraft Company, manufacturer of the 2T-1A Sport Trainer biplane
  • Great Lakes station, a railway station in North Chicago, Illinois, United States

Other uses

  • Great Lakes Brewery (Toronto)
  • Great Lakes Brewing Company
  • Great Lakes Chemical Corporation, an American company, now part of Chemtura Corporation
  • Great Lakes Council, a former local government area in New South Wales, Australia
  • Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation, a lending body that specializes in educational loans
  • Great Lakes Institute of Management, based in Chennai, India
  • Great Lakes tectonic zone

See also

  • Great Lakes Commission, North American agency
  • Great Lakes Compact
  • Great Lakes Depression, a depression that contains the Great Lakes of Mongolia
  • Great Lakes Megalopolis
  • Iowa Great Lakes, a collection of lakes in Dickinson County, Iowa, US