Short answers, pulled from the story.
Lake Huron has a surface area of 23,000 square miles, making it the second-largest of the five Great Lakes by surface area. It is the third-largest freshwater lake on Earth, or the fourth-largest lake overall if the Caspian Sea is counted as a lake.
The name Lake Huron comes from early French explorers who applied the term "Huron" to the indigenous Wyandot people living in the region, and that name was then extended to the lake. French maps typically labeled it "Lac des Hurons," meaning Lake of the Hurons. A 1656 map by Nicolas Sanson also recorded the Wyandot name Karegnondi.
The storm struck on the 9th of November 1913 and raged for 16 hours. It sank 10 ships, drove more than 20 others ashore, and killed 235 seamen. The freighter Manola survived by sheltering at Harbor Beach, Michigan, while Matoa was found stranded on the Port Austin reef.
Since 2008, archaeologists have discovered at least 60 stone constructions along the submerged Alpena-Amberley Ridge, believed to be hunting blinds used by Paleo-Indians when the ridge was dry land about 9,000 years ago. A 2013 underwater find along the same ridge confirmed that obsidian from Oregon reached the Lake Huron region nearly ten thousand years ago via long-distance trade.
More than a thousand wrecks have been recorded in Lake Huron. The Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve, established in 2000, holds 116 of them across its 448 square miles. Saginaw Bay contains 185 wrecks and Georgian Bay holds 212 sunken vessels.
Sea lamprey, alewife, and rainbow smelt became abundant in Lake Huron by the 1930s and contributed to the near-extinction of native lake trout by 1950. Later arrivals include zebra mussels, quagga mussels, spiny water fleas, and round gobies. By 2006, the demersal fish community was in a state of collapse, though walleye in Saginaw Bay reached recovery targets in 2009.