spacerlinkThe Christopher Columbus Navigation Homepage
An excellent resource on Columbus. It includes a Timeline; pages on his crew, ships, and navigation; individual pages covering his first, second, third, and fourth voyages; and the Columbus Landfall Homepage.

spacerlinkColumbus and the Age of Discovery
A searchable site that contains over 1100 full-text articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, speeches, and other sources mostly about exploration of the Americas.

spacerlinkThe Explorers Club
This is an international professional society that has been meeting since 1904. The extensive list of links covers land, sea, and space exploration; organization and planning of expeditions; funding; travel advisories; expedition and conservation organizations; scientific institutes, foundations, and associations; and more.

spacerlinkEuropean Voyages of Exploration
This multimedia tutorial focuses on exploration and conquest by Spain and Portugal during the fifteenth and sixteenth century in Asia, Africa, the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and the Americas.

spacerlinkThe Mariners' Museum Age of Exploration On-line Curriculum Guide
This site traces the history of exploration from the ancient world of the Egyptians and Phoenicians to 1768, providing images and information about discoveries, ships, shipboard life, maps, charts, and navigation methods.

spacerlinkPassages: A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration
This Web site features European voyages and explorations in North America from Columbus's Atlantic crossing in 1492 to Roald Amundsen's exploration of the Northwest Passage in 1905.

 

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