Minecraft wiki entry for Beach, associated text: The snowy beach variant generates wherever snowy plains, snowy taiga, or any of their variants border an ocean. Snowy beaches are similar to regular beaches terrain-wise, being made mostly of sand, though their landscape is covered entirely in snow layers. The water surrounding snowy beaches freezes into ice due to the cold temperatures and these beaches often lead to frozen oceans. Turtles cannot spawn here, but rabbits can‌[BE only]. Shipwrecks and buried treasure may still generate in this variant.