Oceanography online resources - Online resources about the age of exploration & discovery

Exploration, Expeditions, and Discoveries

Famous Explorers

Historical Countries & Cities

The History of Portugal

Exploration, Expeditions, and Discoveries

- Age of Exploration Time Line
http://www.mariner.org/age/histexp.html

- The Ancient Phoenicians
http://marlowe.wimsey.com/~rshand/streams/thera/phoenicians.html

- Biographies of Explorers and Associated People
http://www.mariner.org/age/biohist.html

- Early Navigation Methods
http://www.mariner.org/age/earlynav.html

- Maps & Charts of the Fifteenth Century
http://www.mariner.org/age/maps.html

- Viking Explorers
http://www.mariner.org/age/vikingexp.html

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Famous Explorers

- Bartolomeu Dias
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/3808/dias_e.html

- Bartolomeu Dias (map)
http://www.mariner.org/age/images/dias.gif

- Christopher Columbus
http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/1492.exhibit/c-Columbus/columbus.html

- Columbus & Celestial Navigation
http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/cn.htm

- Columbus & Dead Reckoning (DR) Navigation
http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/dr.htm

- Columbus Ships
http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/ships.htm

- Strassman
http://marauder.millersv.edu/~columbus/papers/strass-1.html

- The Second Voyage of Columbus
http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/v2.htm

- The Third Voyage of Columbus
http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/v3.htm

- The Fourth Voyage of Columbus
http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/v4.htm

- Discoveries After Prince Henry
http://www.thornr.demon.co.uk/kchrist/discpde.html

- Henry the Navigator
http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/henry.html

- Ferdinand Megellan
http://www.travelinsurancereview.net/Travel-Facts/Ferdinand-Magellan-First-Trip-Around-World.html"

- Marco Polo: An Inspiration to Christopher Columbus & the Age of Discovery
http://marauder.millersv.edu/~columbus/data/cwk/SENSEN01.CWK

- The Catholic Encyclopedia: Vasco da Gamma
http://www.csn.net/advent/cathen/06374a.htm

- The Exploits of Vasco da Gamma
http://www.mariner.org/age/dagama.html

- Vasco da Gamma (map)
http://www.mariner.org/age/images/dagama.gif

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Historical Countries & Cities

- Cape Town History
http://home.intekom.com/corrn/ctcity/cthist.html

- Mozambique
http://www.southern-africa.com/info_mozambique.htm

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The History of Portugal

- History
http://www.nexus-pt.com/alg/history.htm

- The Portugal Explorers
http://www.mariner.org/age/portexp.html

- Portuguese Ships
http://www.mariner.org/age/portuguese.html

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