Includes a brief account of the life of this American ship captain and mathematician.
Read the transcript from a lecture by Keith Pickering on the navigational mysteries and fraudulent longitudes of this famous explorer.
Collects and evaluates marine hydrographic data for nautical charts. Serves commercial and recreational users of the Nation's waterways.
View maps and read several theories that discuss this famous explorer's first landing spot in the New World. Includes other Columbus links.
Based in California, this organization offers consulting services and products for scientific, environmental, and commercial projects.
Provides links relating to various voyages of discovery and exploration. Also find an alphabetical list of explorers, travelogues, and articles.
Exhibition of maps and navigational equipment offers images of the New World from the 1500s, along with observations and a bibliography.
Learn about navigation and how it is completed with the global positioning systems. Learn how to use GPS in everyday life.
Nonprofit society is dedicated to the advancement of the art and science of navigation. Learn about membership, meetings, and publications.
Organization unites national and multinational institutes that are involved in navigation. Find a directory, a newsletter, and a constitution.
Provides home-study courses for coastal and celestial navigation. Read course descriptions and FAQs, or register.
Read an article from the Univ. of St. Andrews on the history of longitude, then skip ahead for a discussion of the English attack on longitude.
Rice University resource on Galileo describes the astronomer's profound effect on maritime navigation.
Carnegie Melon Robotics Institute works on developing the navigation system of the lunar rover. Meet researchers, and learn about their work.
Learn about the communication signals that are used for marine and air navigation systems.
Learn how ships and airplanes calculate their position when using this navigation method.
Find out why this navigational devise is widely used to pilot ships, submarines, missiles, and planes.
Explains how the global coordinate system of latitudes and longitudes works and offers links to related Web sites.
Find out about this system used to help sailors and pilots maintain a course or figure out their position on the globe via radio waves.
Learn about the location, and possible reversal of the earth's poles.
Learn about the difference between dead-reckoning, celestial navigation, and piloting.
Describes the line of longitude running through Greenwich, UK, which serves as the standard reference for all East-West measurements.
Describes a navigational tool which allowed sailors to determine their location through celestial observations.
Describes techniques for measuring the depth of water, which include dropping a weighted line or using sonar.
Find out about this Latvian museum's current exhibits, which cover the history of Latvian navigation from ancient to modern times.
Access detailed river information for the Mississippi river basin. Covers the Missouri, Illinois and Ohio river basins.
Based in Australia, this corporation offers electronic navigation systems. Look through the available products, and find contact information.
Company researches, surveys, and recovers underwater shipwrecks. Includes sections on artifact sales and relevant legal issues.
Learn the secrets of ancient navigators, discover the biggest challenges to modern navigation, and play a Shockwave longitude game.
Sponsors deep-sea shipwreck exploration and recovery projects. Find videos that chronicle current projects, and browse the artifact gallery.
Manufactures and distributes marine software that can be used for navigation and training purposes. Offers demos and a product catalog.
Retails navigation software packages and customized on-board computer hook-ups. Browse the product catalog, and find a price list.
University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology presents a multimedia discussion of traditional navigation in Micronesia.
Presents navigational charts and software for recreational mariners. Look at a few samples, request a catalog, or fill out an order form.
Companion to the PBS film about the Polynesian sea-voyaging tradition investigates noninstrument navigation. Includes a RealAudio interview.
Explores ancient Hawaiian navigation, describes life on voyaging canoes, and explains navigation by the stars.