- Expeditions: 150 Years of Smithsonian Research in Latin America
Offers sections on the U.S. Exploring Expedition, William Henry Holmes, Caribbean archaeology, and Alexander Wetmore.
www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/laexped/opener1.htm
- Wings Worldquest
Dedicated to researching, promoting, and celebrating contributions of extraordinary women explorers. Includes information on the annual Women of Discovery Awards.
www.wingstrust.org
- United States Exploring Expedition@
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/United_States_Exploring_Expedition
- The Art of African Exploration
Collection of 19th-century European paintings, drawings, maps, and more that reveal Africa as seen by Western eyes. From the Smithsonian.
www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/artofafricanexploration
- Low Road North, The
Online exhibit from the American Philosophical Society about Sir Hubert Wilkins' 1931 polar expedition.
www.amphilsoc.org/library/exhibits/nautilus
- Voyages: Scientific Circumnavigations, 1679-1859
Online exhibition devoted to the great scientific expeditions of the Age of Sail.
www.lindahall.org/events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/voyages
- Age of Discovery 1340-1600
World map illustrating the routes and events of Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch explorers.
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/explorer_map_shepherd.jpg
- Hamel and the Discovery of Korea
The history of Hendrick Hamel, the first Westerner to write about Korea, after his 1666 shipwreck.
www.henny-savenije.pe.kr
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