Tag Archives: Pacific Ocean

Hawaii and its extensions

Posted on November 16, 2011 by

  Find “Our States Have Crazy Shapes” on amazon.com and bluespectrumbooks.com You would think that in a discussion about how the states got their shapes that Hawaii would be a no brainer. – – – ocean surrounds a few chunks … Continue reading →

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Our states looked like stripes

Posted on September 28, 2011 by

By the time the colonial settlers were setting boundaries for their territories in the New World they were already aware that far to the west this chunk of land ended at the Pacific Ocean.  Both the Spanish and the French … Continue reading →

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