Sites

MapFocus.com - English
URL: http://www.mapfocus.com/

Built on a national database of detailed topographic maps, MapFocus is the resource for seamless, digital map data.

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Proyecto Mercator - Spanish
URL: http://www.mercator.org/

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Largest thematic catalog for resources in cartography, photogrammetry, geofisics, gps-geodesy, gis, remote sensing and topography.

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Discoverers Web Homepage - links and information on voyages of discovery - English
URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/

An open links collection of voyages of discovery and exploration.

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Вокруг света - официальный сайт журнала и передачи - Russian
URL: http://www.vokrugsveta.ru/

Теперь «Вокруг света», это не только увлекательный журнал со стопятидесятилетней историей. Теперь это не только программа, выходящая на телеканале РТР уже три года. Теперь это и интернет сайт, в котором слилось воедино и то и другое.

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National Surveyor's Hall of Fame - English
URL: http://www.enetis.net/~surveyor/nshof/

American explorers, trailblazers and other prominent persona who influenced greatly on the history of the U.S.

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Society for the History of Discoveries - English
URL: http://www.sochistdisc.org/

Society for the History of Discoveries offers an annual prize for an essay on voyages, history of exploration, navigation, nautical travels, maritime history and geographical discovery. The site represent the journal of society - terra Incognitae.

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Nordic Underwater Archaeology - English
URL: http://www.abc.se:80/~m10354/uwa/

This site is mostly about Northern Europe. Museums, Societies, Authorities & Contacts. Literature, Journals, Documents, Conferences.

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Discoverers Web: Exploration in the Medieval period - English
URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/medieval.html

The first few centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire have been called the 'dark ages', and at least from the point of view of the history of discovery this is not without reason. Not only were few if any new routes opened in this period, even the existing ones came in disuse. Trade between various regions of Europe became less. The first voyages to be made again, were pilgrimages, to Rome and the Holy Land. Later, but still well before the end of the first millennium, trade routes were renewed - first within the Mediterranean, later also on the Atlantic and Baltic.

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EARLY NAVIGATION METHODS - English
URL: http://www.mariner.org/age/earlynav.html

When a sailor departs port and loses sight of land, he must have some method of determining his direction. Early captains relied on nature to provide the answers. We all know the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. A rising sun on the left-hand side of the ship, for example, meant it was sailing south. At night, the pilot could view the Pole or North Star.

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Валиханов Ч. Ч. - Russian
URL: http://www.geocities.com/plt_2000plt_us/chv/

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Музей, посвященный выдающемуся российскому географу, путешественнику и общественному деятелю.

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The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea - English
URL: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/periplus.html

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Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century.

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Strabo: Geography - English
URL: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/strabo-geog-book15-india.html

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Book XV: On India.

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Очерки по истории естествознания в России в XVIII столетии - Russian
URL: http://lib.ru/FILOSOF/WERNADSKIJ/hist-rus.txt

Лекции и статьи Владимира Ивановича Вернадского. Это самое крупное исследование ученого по истории русской науки.

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Topography - English
URL: http://encarta.msn.com/index/conciseindex/1E/01EAC000.htm?z=1&pg=2&br=1

An Encarta Encyclopedia Article Titled "Topography".

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Poseidon - English
URL: http://www.greece.org/poseidon/

The maritime history of Hellas and Cyprus, the Hellenic maritime museums.

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