Imagine setting sail from Hawaii in a canoe. Your target is a small island thousands of kilometers away in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. For thousands of years, Polynesian navigators managed voyages like this without the help of...

This site provides a well-written account of Prince Henry's adventurous personality that led him to become one of Portugal's most famous explorers. Discusses the economic benefits of Portugal's exploration and trade. Note: This tutorial...

Sailors improved on many of the tools used in navigation to help them in their long journeys across an ocean. On this site from the Mariners' Museum, find many of these tools, perhaps in use already in the 15th century, but made even...

Navigate around the island to explore various landforms and water bodies in this interactive game from PLUM LANDING. Journey around the island and pick up trash to unlock information - including videos and ground-level and aerial images...

An easy-to-understand description of Prince Henry, a Portuguese prince and navigator, said to have started the first School of Navigation.

During this project-based instructional activity, students will become detectives looking for information about early American explorers. Students will have the opportunity to navigate the Internet to locate important facts about these...

Short essay by university professor discuss Henry the Navigator.

Learn the history of Australia, see photos of nature, animals and places through the continent, learn how to speak slang in Australian. Navigate the site by clicking on the category words in the orange bar.

This site gives information on technical advances in Portuguese shipbuilding and navigational tools.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart resource provides a framework in which students can explore and research some of Australia's early explorers.

Use this GeoStory in formal or informal instruction to provide information about the voyages of numerous historical navigators and explorers. This GeoStory helps students understand the importance of ocean exploration in contributing to...

A history of the world from the perspective of those who sailed the seas in great waves of exploration, from ancient times through the nineteenth century. Learn about the explorers, their ships, the tools they navigated by, and their...

Overview of the motives behind the exploration of the "new world" during the Renaissance. Discusses the trading that took place between the "new world" and Europe and various riches offered in Mexico and Latin America.

A survey of the explorers of the Renaissance period. Includes a general look at the main explorers, with links to biographies of many of them.

This site details the information known about California before 1769 based on the account of six explorers.

This resource presents an account of the life and voyages of explorer and navigator, Henry Hudson, who sailed and discovered for both the Dutch and English.

A biography of Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama, highlighting his accomplishments to European exploration. Readers will find an accompanying accounts of his voyages and a collection of the tools he and his crews used for navigating the...

Use the navigation at the left to click into more information on the Incas and the Spanish conquest by Francisco Pizarro.

Explore the St. Lawrence River with French navigator, Jacques Cartier, while reading about his voyages to Eastern Canada. Provides photos of the river, as well as a painting of his ship, Grande Hermine.

A Buccaneer's Guide to the Age of Exploration depicts European world-wide exploration and exploitation through a collage-style book of text, hand-drawn and water-colored illustrations, maps, timelines, and diagrams. The book chronicles...

Are you looking to learn the basics of web page design with Microsoft FrontPage 98? This fun and educational tutorial offers interactive activities and quizzes. The tutorial covers: introduction to FrontPage, creating your first website,...

Bartolomeu Dias, Dias also spelled Diaz (born c. 1450-died May 29, 1500, at sea, near Cape of Good Hope), Portuguese navigator and explorer who led the first European expedition to round the Cape of Good Hope (1488), opening the sea...

This site provides information on mapmaking and cartograohy of the early explorers. Includes pictures of maps.

Learn about the fall of the Aztec Empire. You can use the navigation tool at the left to click into more information on the Aztecs and the Spanish conquest of Cortes. Uses popups.