1) Bass Islands locale 2) Buffalo sighting 3) Factor in Buffalo snowfalls 4) Maumee river outlet 5) One of a great quintet 6) Ontario is on it 7) Pelee Island location 8) Perry-victory locale 9) Turtle Island surrounder 10) Water by Toledo 11) Waters off Buffalo 12) Waters off Sandusky 
Lake Erie (i; Lac Érié) is the fourth largest lake (by surface area) of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the tenth largest globally or twelfth largest globally if measured in terms of surface area. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest average water residence t...
The USS Lake Erie is an American Ticonderoga Class guided missile cruiser.
[n] - the 4th largest of the Great Lakes
Erie noun the 4th largest of the Great Lakes; it is linked to the Hudson River by the New York State Barge Canal