The Great Turtle Race

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Illustration courtesy Soap Interactive

Starting today, follow 11 leatherback turtles as they swim from Nova Scotia, Canada, across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean in the Great Turtle Race. Eleven different turtles are competing in the race. The first turtle to cross the finish line and enter the Caribbean wins!

Meet the Turtles

Backspacer
Billy
Cali
Estéban
Grembo Jones
Lindblad the Explorer
Nightswimmer
Nueva Esperanza
Seabiscuit
Searcher
Wawa Bear


Visit the interactive Race Map to follow your favorite turtle’s progress. Good luck to all of these super swimmers!

Visit the interactive Race Map to follow your favorite turtle’s progress. Good luck to all of these super swimmers!

Follow the race updates on the Green Scene blog.

Enter a turtle in the Great Turtle Race game.

Comments

  1. gilly
    April 16, 2009, 3:39 pm

    that is a pretty big turtle

  2. bffjb23
    April 16, 2009, 9:48 pm

    oh,boy i wanna go to that race!

  3. esteban95
    April 17, 2009, 6:11 pm

    one of those turtles is the same name as my blog name!

  4. nemo
    May 5, 2009, 5:13 pm

    I think the turtels did do hard work so they diserve a long break. I am proud for the winner.

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