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 parts of
coastlines are places where pirates plundered ships, or where noisy sea
lions bark, or where tons of whalemeat are hauled ashore.
You can read about many kinds of coastlines on the pages that follow.
GIANT BLANKET OF ICE
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…
