- 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
 - Library of Congress exhibit examining the mixture of societies coexisting in five areas of the Western Hemisphere before European arrival. - 2000 Chevron Duyfken (Little Dove) Expedition
- A project reenacting the voyage of the Dutch ship Duyfken to Australia, marking Europe's first written record of that continent. Read about the original travels of the exploration vessel, or see pictures of the making of the replica ship.
- Age of Discovery 1340-1600
- World map illustrating the routes and events of Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch explorers.
- Age of European Exploration
- Pictures, essays, general information, and biographies.
- Age of Exploration
- Online exhibit charting maritime discovery from ancient times to Captain Cook's 1768 voyage to the South Pacific. Includes explorer biographies, ship-building and sailing vocabulary, and classroom activities.
- Age of Exploration Time Line
- Important dates in the exploration of the seas, from the Egyptian voyage to Phoenicia in 3200 B.C. to the death of the notorious Captain Cook in 1779. From the Mariners' Museum.
- American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition
- Showcases the papers, photographs, field notes, and anthropological objects from the 1909-1915 expedition.
- Captain Morgan's Journal
- Directory of online resources for maritime and nautical history, pirate lore, Vikings, and the Navy. Includes suggested reading lists for those interested in maritime facts and trivia.
- Conquistadors
- Online companion to the series examining the explorations of Cortes, Orellana, Cabeza de Vaca, and Pizarro. Also offers an online learning adventure for students and teachers.
- Discoverers Web
- Collection of links and information from around the web about voyages of discovery and exploration.
- European Voyages of Exploration
- Historical overview of maritime exploration by Portugal and Spain in the 15th and 16th centuries, when they established sea routes between the world's continents. Also examines the economic, political, and cultural patterns of that era in Europe.
- 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.
- Female Explorers
- Articles, news, and links about the women exploring the world.
- Hakluyt Society
- Fee based memebership organisation offering scholarly editions of records of voyages, travels, and geographical discovery.
- Hamel and the Discovery of Korea
- The history of Hendrick Hamel, the first Westerner to write about Korea, after his 1666 shipwreck.
- Hudson's Bay Company@
- Examines the Hudson's Bay Company that originally mapped much of what is now Canada. Includes sites about its history as well as current activities.
- Latitude: The Science of Sailing the World
- Comparison of maritime maps before and after sailors learned to measure their latitude, or distance from the Earth's poles. The discovery of latitude revolutionized the art of sailing and the European exploration of the globe.
- Low Road North, The
- Online exhibit from the American Philosophical Society about Sir Hubert Wilkins' 1931 polar expedition.
- Meeting of Frontiers
- Library of Congress presentation that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. In English and Russian.
- PolarHusky.com
- An educational exploration of Nunavut setting out to document climate change in the Arctic Circle.
- Polynesian Voyaging Society (2)
- Investigates the means by which Polynesian seafarers discovered and settled nearly every inhabitable island in the Pacific Ocean.
- Portola Expedition of 1769
- Information on the land and maritime expeditions of what was later to become California.
- Sebastian Vizcaino's Exploration of Monterey
- Account of Spanish explorer Sebastian Vizcaino's expedition to Monterey, in what is now California, on December 16, 1602.
- Ships of Discovery
- Research and educational organisation studying ships of the earliest European explorations in the New World.
- Society for the History of Discoveries
- Formed to stimulate interest in teaching, research, and publishing the history of geographical exploration. Includes information about the journal Terra Incognitae.
- 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.
- United States Exploring Expedition@
- Voyage of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons
- Online exhibit about the history of ocean and maritime exploration. See images, maps, and other information about notable explorers, expeditions, and navigations.
- Voyages: Scientific Circumnavigations, 1679-1859
- Online exhibition devoted to the great scientific expeditions of the Age of Sail.
- Wings Worldquest
- Dedicated to researching, promoting, and celebrating contributions of extraordinary women explorers. Includes information on the annual Women of Discovery Awards.
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