The natural history, geography, and people of the Congo as documented by Lang and Chapin on their 1909-1915 expedition. Overview, slide presentation, field notes, photographs, maps.

Features selections from the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress, including rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and images of artifacts. Major themes are Pre-Contact America; Explorations & Encounters; Aftermath of the Encounter... see more

Provides access to materials from the 1926 Dutch and American Expedition to New Guinea which was a mission to document the lives of the so-called "pygmy" tribes of the Sudirman mountain range, New Guinea.

Information about the 1492-1493 journey headed by Christopher Columbus with background about support for the journey, timeline with excerpts from journals and a map.

Companion to book by Gavin Menzies and television documentary. Features maps and images describing the evidence behind the theory that the Chinese circumnavigated and charted the globe a century before the Europeans.

Collection of photographs from an 1899 expedition by Edward H. Harriman and 23 scientists to explore the waters and coastal territory of Alaska.

Contains the accounts of individual scientific voyages with illustrations. Includes the expeditions of Dampier, Anson, Bougainville, Cooke, Darwin.

Features chronologies of James Cook's life, information about his ships and family history, images of engravings and stamps featuring Cook, the wills of Cook and his crew, extracts from Cook's journals from 1773-1774, book reviews.

An exhibit that traces the history of Captain James Cook and his explorations of the Pacific in the 18th century.

Information about John Wesley Powell's expedition down the Colorado River and a timeline of his life. Includes an lesson on running rapids and a look at the geologic history of the area.

Information about the Spanish Conquistadors in the New World and the legacy of their contact with Native Americans. Includes timelines and guides for teachers.

Contains material which documents the history of Spanish expansion in North America, reflecting the different perspectives of Spain and the United States. Available in English and Spanish.

J.B. Tyrrell's expeditions for the Geological Survey of Canada, 1892-1894 with images from original field notebooks, correspondence, photographs, maps and published reports, biographical information, interactive maps.