Major links
This page gives an overview of some of the larger sites on Discovery & Exploration.
- Discoverers Web
- Link collector, with some own pages as well, on voyages of discovery and exploration. The page you are reading is part of this site.
- Society for the History of Discoveries
- A society to stimulate interest in teaching about, research on and publishing about the history of geographical exploration.
- Mercator's World
- Magazine on cartography and exploration. A number of articles from back issues is available.
- ThinkQuest: Discovering New Horizons
- Biographies, other information and teaching materials
- Yahoo!
- The page on exploration in the world's most famous internet guide
- The Hakluyt Society
- Organization for the publication of re-editions and translations of travel reports from explorers.
- Silkroad Foundation Homepage
- The history of the world's most legendary trade route
- The Age of Exploration Curriculum Guide
- Maritime discovery from the first beginning till James Cook. From the Mariers' museum.
- Computerized Information Retrieval System on Columbus and the Age of Discovery
- Very extensive gopher-site with articles on Columbus and the Age of Discovery, as well as other information and links.
- Polynesian Voyaging Society
- An organization to investigate the Polynesian trading and colonizing voyages.
- The Travels of Ibn Battuta
- Extensive description of the travels of Ibn Battuta and the countries he visited.
- The European Voyages of Exploration: The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
- Discusses some explorers, and the reasons for and consequences of their voyages.
- The Columbus Navigation Homepage
- Various kinds of information on Columbus.
- 1492: An ongoing voyage
- Library of Congress Exhibit on the discovery and colonization of America.
- La Conquista (German)
- Description of the conquests of Mexico and Peru
- Na Crista da Onda (Portuguese)
- The history of the Portuguese naval empire, divided in sections about one person, place or theme
- Calderon's Company
- 'Living History' of De Soto's base camp in Florida
- Florida History
- The voyages of Hernando de Soto and the Native Americans living in the southeastern United States at the time.
- Letters on Spanish Texas
- Research on Spanish exploration in the US, done for fourth grade students.
- Windows to the Unknown: Cabeza de Vaca's Journey to the Southwest
- Information, opinions and questions on the journey of Alvaro Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca to the Southwest.
- The Estevanico Society
- 'The Estevanico Society is dedicated to scholarly research into the life and journeys of Estevanico (also Esteban or Stephen the Black.)'
- Inuit and englishmen: The Nunavut voyages of Martin Frobisher
- Information on Frobisher's voyages, emphasis on his interaction with the
Inuit. Also available in a French version.
- Santa Elena home page
- Information on the late sixteenth century French settlement Charlesfort and Spanish settlement Santa Elena
- Sir Francis Drake
- By Oliver Seeler, who has written the as of yet unpublished Francis Drake in Nova Albion on this subject.
- Roanoke Revisited
- The history of Raleigh's attempts to establish an English colony on Roanoke Island in the 1580s.
- Cuartocentennial of Colonization of New Mexico
- Extensive (week-by-week) description of Oñate's expedition that colonized new Mexico in 1598.
- The Voyage of 'de Liefde'
- In 1598 five ships set sail from Rotterdam to try to reach the Indies through the Straits of Magalhaes. One of these, 'de Liefde' ('Love') would start the first contacts between the Netherlands and Japan.
- Biography of Henry Hudson
- Biography, travelogue, links and bibliography.
- Mayflower Web Pages
- Mayflower history and genealogy.
- The Virtual Museum of New-France: Explorers
- Explorers who established or extended the French areas in North America
- Historic HBC
- The Hudson's Bay Company describes its proud past.
- European Discoveries in the South Pacific and Indo-West Pacific
- Several good descriptions of voyages to the South Pacific and Australia.
- The La Salle Shipwreck Project
- Archaeological investigation of the shipwreck of the Belle, La Salle's ship on his last voyage.
- Arctic Dawn - the Journeys of Samuel Hearne
- Hearne's description of his expedition made available in hypertext format.
- Captain Cook Study Unit
- A Society for everyone interested in James Cook
- Captain James Cook, the Navigator
- Another site with Cook-related material
- HM Bark Endeavour foundation
- Sailing around the world in a replica of Cook's ship.
- Canadian Arctic Profiles: Exploration
- The search for the northwest passage, from Frobisher to Amundsen.
- An anthology of the discovery of Australia
- Many parts from the writings of the eexplorers of the Australian coast, especially Flinders.
- Lewis & Clark Internet Archive
- Link collector.
- The Famous Explorer and Mountain Man Page
- Large jpg-pictures and a few biographies.
- The Mountain Men: Pathfinders of the West
- The history of the first Americans to go west, looking for furs.
- Mountain Men and the Fur Trade
- Sources of the history of the fur trade in the Rocky Mountain West.
- Elisha Kent Kane Historical Society
- Nineteenth century Arctic exploration (especially the American voyages)
- Explorers of Australia
- Title says it all.
- Australian Explorerss
- Another collection of pages on explorers of Australia
- Australian Explorers
- Yet more Australian explorers
- John Charles Fremont Home Page
- At the moment only a biography, but the author promises to give us more in time
- The John McDouall Stuart Society
- A society to perpetuate the name and achievements of the surveyor and explorer, John McDouall Stuart
- The Moravians
- The Moravian church and its missions in Labrador.
- Nordic Explorers
- Website to the 'Nordic Explorers'-exposition, with some articles by experts.
- Antarctic Philatelic Home Page
- Well-written descriptions of the voyages of Antarctic explorers.
- The World of Andrée
- The life of the ill-fated Swedish polar explorer.
- Otto Sverdrup Expedition
- An expedition in which it is tried to retrace Sverdrup's Canadian Arctic expedition.
- The Gertrude Bell Project
- An archive of Bell's diaries, letters and photographs, intended to be complete at the project's end.
- PolarFlight
- Polar exploration by balloon, airship and plane
- Alexandra David-Neél Official Website
- Various information on Alexandra David-Neél, in English and French.
- The Great Unknown, The Great Explorers
- Dedicated to the search of Percy Fawcett, who disappeared in Brazil in 1925, but also with information on other South American Explorers.
- History of Cartography Gateway
- Tons of links on the history of maps and cartography
- From Revolution to Reconstruction
- HTML-texts on American History.