Exploration Websites

"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.

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.

History, biographies, and memorabilia of explorers of the "great white continent".

Offers an annual prize for an essay on voyages, history of exploration, navigation, nautical travels, maritime history, and geographical discovery.

Underwater archaeology and shipwrecks. "Sheds light on the ships that have made our planet one world."

Essays covering the pre-Columbian period through the sixteenth century by John Logan Allen, 1997 by subscription.

News articles of the sea, space, peaks, poles, time, travel, events and books.

A summary of early Egyptian voyages along the eastern African coast and the attempted circumnavigation of Africa.

Searchable collection of historical manuscripts and maps, from the US Library of Congress.