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General Explorer
Sites
The
Age of Exploration
Information on most of the
important explorers, from the ancient world to Capt.
Cook. Created by The Mariners' Museum in Newport News,
Virginia, USA.
Antarctic
Philately
Excellent site that is "dedicated
to the stamps, postal history and heroic explorers of the
great white continent and its surrounding islands."
Contains many biographies of Antarctic explorers.
Discoverers
Web
A wide variety of links to
information about voyages of discovery and
exploration.
Discovery
and Exploration
Library of Congress American
Memory site, which includes images of explorers' maps,
journal entries, and historical documents.
Explorers
An extensive list of links to
explorer sites, created by Kennesaw State University in
Georgia, USA.
Explorers
Theme
Site about European explorers,
created by an elementary school in Newfoundland,
Canada.
KidInfo...Explorers
links
Includes some sites listed here,
plus many, many others on individual explorers.
Passages:
a Treasure Trove of North American Exploration
The National Library of Canada has
put this site together, which contains information on
important explorers of North America.
Zoom
Explorers
(EnchantedLearning.com)
An online encyclopedia of
explorers, written for kids.
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Reference/Encyclopedia
Sites
Brittanica.com
Includes articles about most major
explorers and also provides links to other sites about
each explorer. Just type your explorer's name into "The
Web's Best Search" box.
Microsoft
Encarta® Online Encyclopedia
2000
The online version of the popular
CD-ROM encyclopedia. Articles include a helpful "How to
Cite this Article" note at the bottom for your
bibliography.
Ask
Jeeves
An easy-to-use search engine. Just
type in what you're looking for, and Jeeves will find it
for you on the Web. He might even send you back here to
Explorers of the Millennium!
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Specific Explorer
Sites
(these sites are noted on the
individual explorers' pages; you can also try general sites
above for more links to specific explorers)
Amundsen, Roald
The
Roald Amundsen
Linkpage
Roald
Amundsen (Columbia Electronic
Encyclopedia)
Armstrong, Neil
One
Giant Leap: The 30th Anniversary of Apollo
11
Neil
Armstrong: Astronaut Hall of
Fame
Artcom
Museum Tour: Neil Armstrong Air & Space
Museum
Boone, Daniel
American
West: Daniel Boone
The
Daniel Boone Wilderness
Trail
Daniel
Boone links from the University of
Louisville
Richard E. Byrd
About
Admiral Richard E.
Byrd
Antarctic
Explorers: Richard E. Byrd
Cabot, John
John
Cabot -Gullage's
Travels
European
Explorers: John
Cabot
Map
of Cabot's voyages
Champlain, Samuel de
Samuel
de Champlain's 1607
Map
Virtual
Museum of New-France: Samuel de
Champlain
Samuel
de Champlain: Explorer
Alva Nunez, Cabeza de Vaca
de
Soto and de Vaca: Spanish Conquest of Native America
Columbus, Christopher
Columbus
Navigation Homepage
Columbus
Day
Cook, James
Capt.
James Cook, the World's
Explorer
The
Voyages of James Cook
Cortés, Hernán
Hernán
Cortés links
da Gama, Vasco
Vasco
da Gama, the First Man to Sail to
India
Vasco
da Gama, Web Pages & References
de Soto, Hernando
de
Soto and de Vaca: Spanish Conquest of Native
America
Drake, Sir Francis
Sir
Francis Drake
Erikkson, Leif
Leif
Erikkson
Glenn, John
Space.com's
interview with John
Glenn
NASA
biographical page
Hudson, Henry
Ian
Chadwick's Biography of Henry Hudson
LaSalle, Rene-Robert Cavalier
LaSalle
LaSalle,
Sieur de (Compton's
Encyclopedia)
Lewis and Clark
Lewis
& Clark on the Information
Superhighway
Lewis
and Clark
Lindbergh, Charles
Two
Legends of Aviation: Charles Lindbergh & Amelia
Earhart
Livingstone, David
Dr.
Livingstone-Man of
Africa
Stanley
and Livingstone: Forbidden Territory
Magellan, Ferdinand
Ferdinand
Magellan - The Mariners'
Museum
Ferdinand
Magellan
Marquette and Joliet
Discoverers'
Web: Joliet and Marquette
Peary and Henson
Matthew
A. Henson
Matthew
Henson: Arctic
Explorer
Robert
E. Peary, Arctic Explorer and Air
Pioneer
Polo, Marco
Marco
Polo and His Travels
Ride, Sally
Sally
Kristen Ride: First American Woman in
Space
Sacagawea
Pomp,
the son of Sacagawea
(e-book)
America's
Golden Dollar
Tereshkova, Valentina
Valentina
Tereshkova
Biography-at-a-Glance:
Valentina Tereshkova
Vespucci, Amerigo
Amerigo
Vespucci
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