When the Norseman, Eric the Red, discovered a large island in the Atlantic Ocean, he thought if he gave it a good name people would want to move there. So he named the island Greenland. Greenland...
ALL KINDS OF CAPES
> This part of the Cape of Good Hope is called "The Point" in South > Africa. > These are fishing boats in a harbor on Cape Cod. A cape can be a coat that you throw over your shoulders. But a...
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE
You may know how you got your name. But do you know how some oceans and seas got their names? The Pacific Ocean was named by an explorer from Spain, Ferdinand Magellan. When Magellan sailed on the...
NAMED FOR AN EMPEROR
Many years ago, a Roman emperor named Constantine decided to move the capital of his empire from Rome to a city called Byzantium. Byzantium was in the country we now call Turkey. Constantine made...
CLIMBING MOUNT FUJI
Some people climb mountains just because they're there. Others do it just for the fun or adventure of it. But some people climb Mount Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan, for a completely different...
YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU’LL FIND
> These tourists to Venezuela get their first view of Angel Falls from a > dugout canoe on the Churun River. A little over fifty years ago, an aviator named Jimmy Angel flew over the rain forests...
BODY OF A LION HEAD OF A MAN
What has the body of a lion and the head of a man? No, it's not a monster. It's one of many statues in Egypt that look like monsters. This kind of statue is called a sphinx. The Great Sphinx at...
HOW THE LONGEST RIVERS GOT THEIR NAMES
The longest river in the world has more than one part and more than one name---the Nile, the Bine Nile, and the White Nile. One part of the river, called the Blue Nile, starts at Lake Tana in...
FULL OF BLARNEY
The Blarney Stone is in Blarney Castle near Cork, Ireland. Aw, you're full of blarney." Maybe somebody has told you that. And maybe he's right. But if you really want to make sure you're full of...
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Is there a place named for an emperor, or a place named by a king? Is there a place named for some fish, or a place named after some women warriors? Is there a place named because it seemed...
