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Grand Traverse Bay

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Locator map: Grand Traverse Bay highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypeWater body
Coordinates45.0833° N, 85.4668° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
ErasModern era
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Locator map: Grand Traverse Bay highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Water body
Coordinates
45.0833° N, 85.4668° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
environmentmaritime

Summary

Grand Traverse Bay is a Lake Michigan bay used as a broad geographic anchor for the Ferris J. Rennie loss report.

Open questions

  • Can an official search record identify the location of the air-sled incident?

Sources

  1. Records a coordinate at 45°04′59.99″N, 85°28′00.30″W. This point is a broad bay anchor, not the specific site of the Rennie incident.

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Grand Traverse Bay”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/grand-traverse-bay/, accessed [date], citing Wikidata, Grand Traverse Bay (Q5595169), coordinate location, retrieved 2026-08-02..

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