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Voyage of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons
Leads visitors on a journey through the past centuries looking at the explorers, the dangers they faced, where they went, and their motivations for exploration. In English and Dutch.
library.thinkquest.org
Society for the History of Discoveries
Offers an annual prize for an essay on voyages, history of exploration, navigation, nautical travels, maritime history, and geographical discovery.
www.sochistdisc.org
History, biographies, and memorabilia of explorers of the "great white continent".
www.south-pole.com
"A bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest." From the US Library of Congress.
frontiers.loc.gov
Underwater archaeology and shipwrecks. "Sheds light on the ships that have made our planet one world."
www.shipsofdiscovery.org
A US Library of Congress exhibit which examines indigenous peoples in five parts of the Americas and their sustained contact with European explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600.
www.ibiblio.org
Maps of Exploration and Discovery
Searchable collection of historical manuscripts and maps, from the US Library of Congress.
lcweb2.loc.gov
Curriculum guide to maritime exploration throughout history, including a time line list of major events, 3200 B.C. - 1779 A.D..
www.mariner.org
1421: The Year The Chinese Discovered the World
Official website for Gavin Menzies' book on Zheng He and the Ming treasure fleets. Features include maps, complete bibliography, speech transcripts, image gallery, and related links.
www.1421.tv
Provides articles, presentations, and links related to pre-Columbian maritime exploration by various cultures.
www.marcopolovoyages.com
Chapter-length article written in 1966 reviewing the literature on exploration. Includes references, by Wilcomb E. Washburn.
muweb.millersville.edu
Ancient Egypt: Voyages of Exploration
A summary of early Egyptian voyages along the eastern African coast and the attempted circumnavigation of Africa.
nefertiti.iwebland.com
North American Exploration: A New World Disclosed Volume 1
Essays covering the pre-Columbian period through the sixteenth century by John Logan Allen, 1997 by subscription.
www.questia.com
Expeterra: Expeditions, Explorations, Discoveries
News articles of the sea, space, peaks, poles, time, travel, events and books.
www.expeterra.com