The
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.
Distance
Between Cities and Countries
This service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list
of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of
two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the
crow flies).
Global
Positioning System Primer
Searchable information about the global positioning system (GPS),
an aerospace
technology that uses satellites and ground equipment to determine
positions
anywhere on Earth and used today by the military and in navigation
and mapping.
Latitude
This site covers the early history of navigation and mapmaking.
Included are histories
of compass roses, longitude, traditional astronomy, calendars, maps,
math in maps,
magnetism, beacons, ocean currents, sailing, an excellent collection
of links to 'Net
resources on the topics, and more.
Navis.gr
A huge amount of naval information, including ports around the world
(with latitude
and longitude, some with links), celestial and other forms of navigation,
marine
meteorology, ship history and shipbuilding, nautical conventions
and more.
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