No sunbathing here! The shore is all ice. The giant blanket of ice that you see in the picture is the Columbia Glacier in Prince William Sound in Alaska. "Glacier" comes from a French word that...
CLIFFS OF CHALK
Anyone could see that Captain Alfred Bulltop Stormalong's clipper ship couldn't squeeze through the narrow passage of water. "We'll get stuck, ' shouted the crew. But old Captain Stormy, as he was...
KING ON THE COAST
> Sea lions sun themselves on a rocky shore near Florence, Oregon. He sits on a rock throne in the center of a cave and barks and bellows and growls. He is the grumpy sea-lion king who rules over...
LAKE IN A CRATER
Crater Lake in Oregon is so big it looks like a bathtub for a giant. The clear, blue water fills the crater of a volcano named Mount Mazama. Scientists say that Mount Mazama exploded thousands of...
THE GIANT’S TONGUE
> Lumahai Beach is on the northern part of Kauai Island in Hawaii. Here's how the story goes: A mean and grouchy giant once lived on a beach in Hawaii. He frightened people with his bellowing...
THE NOTHING ROCK
> Plymouth Rock is under the white roof supported by columns on the > shore of Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts. Plymouth Rock If some rocks could talk, what stories you could hear! For instance, one...
GIANT STATUES ON SHORE
These statues and temples would be underwater if workmen had not moved them to higher ground. In Egypt, there is a statue so big that eight men can sit on one of its feet. It is one of the...
THAR SHE BLOWS!
The city of Sandefjord, Norway, was once an important whaling port. For many years, ships hunting whales sailed forth from Sandefjord to the icy waters of the Antarctic. High in the crow's nest of a...
SHIPS BEWARE
You'd run the other way, if you heard that Blackbeard was coming. Blackbeard was a cruel pirate from England. His real name was Edward Teach. He had black hair and a long black beard. That's why he...
WHERE LAND AND WATER MEET
Some coastlines are beaches where sand and water meet. But some coastlines have no beaches. Instead, water crashes against the side of a mountain, or water slaps against the side of a glacier. Some...
