General Resources
Virtual Museum of New France - http://www.vmnf.civilization.ca/somm-en.htm This venture allows cybernauts free entry into the first virtual universe devoted to New France: a new world. Include profiles of: Champlain, Cartier, Marquette, Jolliet, La Salle, Brule, and other exlorers.
Great Explorers of the World and their Expeditions http://www.itsnet.com/home/getlost/explore.html
Mariners Museum http://www.mariner.org/age/menu.html This is a great site for early navigation, charts & maps, life aboard a ship, parts of ships, navigation, Columbus, and Magellan.
Voyages of Exploration http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/HIST/tutor/eurvoya/intro.html This is a must see site for everyone! Click on "Knowledge & Power" for great ship info. Lots of other great links!
Explorers Page http://www.cgps.org/cgslab/explorers.htm Very good for Balboa, Cabral, Columbus, Cortez, deGama, Ponce, Dias, Magellan, Vespucci, Navigation Tools, Maps.
Life Aboard a Ship http://www.mariner.org/age/health.html one-page info on health and sickness aboard ships
Explorers in General http://www.snowcrest.net/jmike/explor.html This site offers links to many other good sites on specific explorers.
Explorers in General http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/HIST/tutor/eurvoya/intro.html The Knowledge and Power site is great for ships and how they were sailed!
Isabella & Ferdinand http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/HIST/tutor/eurvoya/isabella.html An excellent explanation of the lives and rule of Ferdinand and Isabella.
Specific Explorers:
Balboa
Balboa, Vasco Nunez de - http://www.optonline.com/comptons/ceo/00395_A.html - The first European to look upon the Pacific Ocean from the shores of the New World was Vasco Núñez de Balboa. The Spanish adventurer and explorer sailed for America in 1500 and settled in Santo Domingo.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa - http://coloquio.com/famosos/balboa.html l Spanish conquistador and explorer. He was the first European to see (and stand in the waters of) the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean, on September 13, 1513. He accomplished this feat after an arduous trek through the jungles of what is now Panama.
Balboa http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7012/balboa.html a good biography
Cabrillo
Cabrillo http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/cabrillo.html A great biography & links to other Cabrillo sites.
Cabot
John Cabot - http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/kiexp.htm A fifth grader's project on the explorer John Cabot. Includes orginal drawings, a bibliography, and internet links.
Champlain
Samuel Champlain - http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1600-00/Champlain.htm Champlain's fame lies principally due to his activities at Quebec where he laboured with the infant colony for the rest of his days until, on December 25th, 1635, this father of Canada died
Columbus
1492 : An Ongoing Voyage - http://metalab.unc.edu/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html This online exhibition from the Library of Congress examines the first sustained contacts between American people and European explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600. During this period, in the wake of Columbus's voyages, Africans also arrived in the hemisphere, usually as slaves.
Columbus Day - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1465/columbus.html A short history of Columbus and his voyages, with Internet links to more detailed resources, including those on the Taino Indians and Ferdinand and Isabella
Columbus Navigation Homepage - http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/ Facts about Christopher Columbus : Columbus and dead reckoning navigation. Columbus and celestial navigation. How long was Columbus's league? Columbus and longitude. Columbus's ships. Columbus's crew. Also includes a timeline of the voyages.
Columbus http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/anthro/caribarch/colon.htm#step Columbus, Hero or Heel?
Columbus - 1492 http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/intro.html This links to the 1492 web site which connects to other columbus sites
Columbus http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/columbus.html This is a great site with lots of links covering everything you'd ever want to know about Columbus. Great info on caravel ships if you click on "Columbus' Ships"
Columbus http://www.mariner.org/age/columbus.html This is a brief biography from the Mariners Museum with links to pictures and info about his voyages.
Cook
Captain James Cook, The World's Explorer - http://members.tripod.com/~cuculus/cook.html This site was set up to honor Captain James Cook, the man who saw the whole world first. He traveled from his homeland of Great Britain to lands where few had gone before and brought home much for his country.
Coronado
Coronado http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/coronado.html a good overview of his search for the 7 Cities of Cibola
Cortez
Cortez http://www.tcr.org/mexico.html a college students paper about Cortez and the conquering of the Aztecs; very good info.
de Gama
de Gama http://www.Cidadevirtual.pt/mosteiro-jeronimos/vascogamaing.html This site describes why de Gamma went to India & tells about his voyage; also gives a bio.
Prince Henry
Prince Henry http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/henry.html This site is about Prince Henry leading the Portuguese into exploration
Hudson
Ian Chadwick's Biography of Henry Hudson - http://www.georgian.net/rally/hudson/ An extensive six part biography of Hudson, including Early Years and personal data; Hudson's first voyage,1607; Hudson's second voyage, 1608; Hudson's third voyage,1609; Hudson's fourth voyage, 1610; Hudson's last journal: a short story.
de Leon
Ponce de Leon - http://ww3.bay.k12.fl.us/district/bayhistory/bhis6.htm Brief summary of this explorer's 1513 voyage to America
Ponce de Leon http://www.gms.ocps.k12.fl.us/biopage/n-s/deleon.html A complete biography.
Ponce de Leon http://magicnet.net/~dac/poncedeleon.html Great description of his expedition of Florida
Ponce de Leon & De Soto http://www.starbanner.com/History/Exploration.html This site describes their expeditions.
Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan - http://www.mariner.org/age/magellan.html The first circumnavigation of the globe was led by Ferdinand Magellan. He was born in the spring of 1480 to a family of lower nobility. Educated in the Portuguese court, Magellan proved himself in many battles in the name of his country. Like Columbus before him, Magellan believed he could get to the Spice Islands by sailing west.
Pizarro
Pizarro http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7012/pizarro.html a biography of Pizarro.
Pizarro http://www.optonline.com/comptons/ceo/03766_A.html Comptons Encyclopedia bio and conquering of Incas explained.
Pizarro's Conquest of the Incas http://www.terraquest.com/galapagos/history/ecuador/conquest.html This is a detailed account of how Pizarro conquered the Incas.
de Vacca
de Vacca http://www.English.swt.edu/CSS/Alvar1CDV.HTML a very compete bio about de Vacca
Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci http://geography.about.com/education/geography/library/weekly/aa050498.htm What year was Vespucci’s first expedition as a navigator?