Knowledge: exploration
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- Voyage of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons
http://library.thinkquest.org/C001692/ - 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.
- Society for the History of Discoveries
http://www.sochistdisc.org/ - Offers an annual prize for an essay on voyages, history of exploration, navigation, nautical travels, maritime history, and geographical discovery.
- Antarctic Philately
http://www.south-pole.com/ - History, biographies, and memorabilia of explorers of the "great white continent".
- Meeting of Frontiers
http://frontiers.loc.gov/ - "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.
- Ships of Discovery
http://www.shipsofdiscovery.org/ - Underwater archaeology and shipwrecks. "Sheds light on the ships that have made our planet one world."
- 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html - 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.
- Maps of Exploration and Discovery
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/dsxphome.html - Searchable collection of historical manuscripts and maps, from the US Library of Congress.
- Age of Exploration
http://www.mariner.org//educationalad/ageofex/ - Curriculum guide to maritime exploration throughout history, including a time line list of major events, 3200 B.C. - 1779 A.D..
- 1421: The Year The Chinese Discovered the World
http://www.1421.tv/ - 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.
- New World oyages
http://www.marcopolovoyages.com/ - Provides articles, presentations, and links related to pre-Columbian maritime exploration by various cultures.
- The Age of Discovery
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/data/art/WASHBR05.ART - Chapter-length article written in 1966 reviewing the literature on exploration. Includes references, by Wilcomb E. Washburn.
- Ancient Egypt: Voyages of Exploration
http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/timelines/topics/exploration.htm - A summary of early Egyptian voyages along the eastern African coast and the attempted circumnavigation of Africa.
- North American Exploration: A New World Disclosed Volume 1
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=10408032 - Essays covering the pre-Columbian period through the sixteenth century by John Logan Allen, 1997 by subscription.
- Expeterra: Expeditions, Explorations, Discoveries
http://www.expeterra.com - News articles of the sea, space, peaks, poles, time, travel, events and books.
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