Directory of Exploration Resources

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The search, discovery, and charting of our world and beyond.

Subcategories

• Explorers
• North America
• Space

Resources in This Category

• 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.

• Ancient Egypt: Voyages of Exploration

  http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/timelines/topics/exploration.htm
  A summary of early Egyptian voyages along the eastern African coast and the attempted circumnavigation of Africa.

• Antarctic Philately

  http://www.south-pole.com/
  History, biographies, and memorabilia of explorers of the "great white continent".

• Expeterra: Expeditions, Explorations, Discoveries

  http://www.expeterra.com/
  News articles of the sea, space, peaks, poles, time, travel, events and books.

• Maps of Exploration and Discovery

  https://www.loc.gov/collection/discovery-and-exploration/about-this-collection/
  Searchable collection of historical manuscripts and maps, from the US Library of Congress.

• 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.

• 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.

• Ships of Discovery

  http://www.shipsofdiscovery.org/
  Underwater archaeology and shipwrecks. "Sheds light on the ships that have made our planet one world."

• 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.

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