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Discoverers Web Home page - links and information on voyages of discovery : A plethora of information on all aspects of exploration. Also check the links section. There are some really good undergraduate papers here.
Odin's Castle of Dreams & Legends: LOTS of links!
Voyage of Exploration Discovering New Horizons
300 Years of Spanish Presence: Biographies of some of the conquistadors
European Explorers - Age of Exploration
Mariners' Museum - Age of Exploration : This place has a little of everything.
The Mariners' Museum EXPLORATION through the AGES: Covers the explorers, their ships, their tools of navigation and voyages. Life at sea is also covered here.
Empire of the Bay: from the PBS series. Includes Hudson, Champlain, Cartier, and others.
Columbus and Other Great Explorers
European Voyages of Exploration - Home Page
Civilization.ca - VMNF - The French Explorers
1500's American History - Spanish Conquistadors in the United States
Conquest for teens: It covers the conquistadors
Explorer Sites : facts about Ponce deLeon, Panfilo de Narvaez, Hernando deSoto, and Tristan deLuna.
A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration
Explorer Links Explorers of the Millennium (Greatest Adventurers of the last 1000 years)
Cartographic Communication : The value of maps, what is a good map, and the basic elements of map composition.
Discovery and Exploration Maps from the Library of Congress : Excellent site.
Cartographic Images : View a variety of ancient maps, early medieval maps, late medieval maps and renaissance maps.
Map History - History of Cartography - WWW-Virtual Library : Aimed at anyone, whether specialist or surfer, who is potentially interested in non-current maps and wants to know how to find out more about them.
Starting Points for Exploration : Exploring the life and times of Galileo including maps contemporary to his time as well as modern maps.
Miami Museum of Science - Shipwreck - The Exhibit -Sailing the Ship : More on Spanish ships, including what it was like to be a crew member.
BBC Introduction of Navigation
History and Celestial Navigation Net : All about celestial navigation.
Seaman's Secrets: online. A fascinating nautical manual written by John Davis in 1595.
The Maritime History Virtual Archives
The Columbus Navigation Homepage : Okay, so it's written about Columbus, but you can apply the information to any explorer.
Maritime History Research on the Internet
Voyage of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons
Proteus Image Search - Search Remote Graphic Databases on the Web : You can find just about anything here.
Modern History Sourcebook: Search Page or Medieval Sourcebook: Search Page : You can search this for all kinds of primary sources here. Which time period does your explorer fall in?
Discoverers Web: Primary sources : Check here for specific explorer's works. A MUST SEE SITE!
Primary Source Professional Development for K-12 Teachers in History and Humanities : A non-profit organization dedicated to bringing primary sources for multicultural curriculum development and education.
Primary Sources for Explorers on the Web
Repositories of Primary Sources : A listing of over 3700 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History. Links connect to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.
The Avalon Project : Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Documents
Exploration and Empire : Contains lots of primary texts about exploration.
The Mind of the Conqueror : This has some super primary source documents.
Medieval
Sourcebook: Christopher Columbus: Extracts from Journal
