Discoverers Web

In this project I try to gather all kinds of information found on the web about voyages of discovery and exploration. If you have found a source not represented on these pages, or if you have noticed any link on this page to be not working correctly, please (I'm begging you!) contact me!

Apart from this page on this site there is:

A large number of biographies and link pages on single explorers or subjects.
A special page for multi-page sites on voyages of discovery.
An alphabetical list of explorers
Exploring is risky business - a list of explorers who died during their voyages
A list of changes to these pages
Information on the email list discovery@win.tue.nl
Awards for these pages
Allowance to copy material from these pages and restrictions thereon

Explorers by period or region

The ancient world

This subject now is divided into separate pages with more extensive information:

The first explorers (including Egypt, Crete)
Phoenicia and Carthage
Greek explorers
The Roman period

The Medieval period

This subject now is divided into separate pages with more extensive information:

Irish and Vikings
The Medieval period (Asiatic and other voyages in the period 1100-1350)

The Age of Discovery

The first part of this subject now is divided into separate pages with more extensive information:

The coast of Africa
The Portuguese empire (including the first voyages to India)
Christophorus Columbus (Cristóbal Colón)
Other early voyages to America: See North and Central America

North America

South America

Asia

Africa

The Pacific and Australia

The Polar Regions

Non-Western Explorers

maintainer of this page:

Andre Engels
email: engels@win.tue.nl
homepage: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/index_en.html