This award-winning website from the University of Calgary's History Department is both impressive and extensive. It focuses on Portuguese and Spanish expeditions of the 15th and 16th centuries (the sitemap provides a good outline of...

A biography of Ferdinand Magellan, a 16th century Portuguese explorer who travelled with a Spanish fleet, and an account of his voyage around the world, from which he did not return.

A biography of Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, and a summary of his voyages.

Extensive information about Sir Francis Drake and his voyage around the world in the 16th century.

A look at mapmaking during the time of the explorers. The site profiles various mapmaking tools and the history of mapmaking from the 16th to the 18th century.

The remains of two great East African ports admired by early European explorers are situated on two small islands near the coast. From the 13th to the 16th century, the merchants of Kilwa dealt in gold, silver, pearls, perfumes, Arabian...

A Late Mississippian and protohistoric palisaded village with one mound; may be the town of Casqui mentioned by 16th century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.

A look at mapmaking during the time of the explorers. The site profiles various mapmaking tools and the history of mapmaking from the 16th to the 18th century.