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Learn More About Champ and Lake Champlain

  • Learn more about Lake Champlain through the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum website. You can also find information on the Lake Champlain Basin Program website.

  • Most researchers believe Champ is a plesiosaur, a pre-historic marina reptile with a long snakelike ear and four large flippers instead of legs. Learn more about plesiosaurs at Enchanted Learning.

  • Cryptozoology is the study and search for unknown, legendary or supposedly extinct creatures. Learn more about this field in The Search for Lake Monsters.

  • Read eyewitness accounts of Champ encounter at Champ Quest.

  • Burlington, Vt. sits on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain. Learn more about the city at its website.

  • The most famous legendary sea creature is the Nessie, said to be living in Loch Ness in Scotland. Learn more at The Legend of Nessie.

  • The Altamaha River near Darien, Georgia, is said to have its own sea monster, the Altamaha-Ha.

  • Want to visit Vermont? Check out the Vermont Department of Tourism.