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	Keepers of the Beacon - The Queensport Light!
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «...dedicated to the historic Queensport Lighthouse, located in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia. This site will provide viewers of all ages with the opportunity to learn about the Queensport Lighthouse and the brave individuals who resided there. We hope you enjoy this website, but most of all we hope you gain a better appreciation and respect for the Queensport Lighthouse Keepers whose beacon provided passing vessels with the guiding light they needed to reach their destinations.» Canadá

	King George III Topographical Collection
		The British Library. Collect Britain. «3,000 watercolours, drawings and prints from the vast collection amassed by a monarch for whom geography was a personal passion as well as a professional necessity.» Reino Unido

	La Cartografía como discurso legitimador en "el Descubrimiento" y Conquista de América
		Universidad de Barcelona. Grupo de Historia Virtual. Francisco Javier Vizuete Villar. «Lo que aquí se presenta no es sino un pálido reflejo del discurso que desarrolló la cartografía "occidental" en el momento crucial en que la sociedad europea dice descubrir el resto del mundo. Por supuesto en esta exposición se mostrarán algunos de los ejemplos más espectaculares, pero no por ello únicos, y que además entroncan con el discurso textual de cronistas, conquistadores, viajeros, y, de modo evidente o solapado, con el discurso oficial de las monarquías europeas en sus intereses coloniales particulares.» España

	La Géographie d'al-Idrîsî. La Méditerranée au XIIe siècle
		Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Expositions Virtuelles. «La Géographie d'al-Idrîsî propose, au milieu du XIIe siècle, une exploration du monde par un savant arabe vivant à la cour cosmopolite du roi normand Roger II de Sicile. C'est un atlas qui décrit de manière très codifiée les pays, leurs villes principales, leurs routes et leurs frontières, les mers, les fleuves et les montagnes. Al-Idrîsî commente ces cartes en suivant des itinéraires, comme un véritable guide. Il livre des informations de toute nature, géographiques bien sûr, mais également économiques et commerciales, historiques et religieuses. Outre la compilation des connaissances déjà pratiquées par ses prédécesseurs, al-Idrîsî s'est doté d'une méthode pour compléter et vérifier ses informations.» Francia

	Le Ciel et la Terre
		Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Expositions Virtuelles. «Du manuscrit médiéval enluminé à la photographie de mirage gravitationnel, plus de 200 pièces originales révèlent les interrogations, les conceptions et les représentations des hommes de tous les temps sur l’univers et sa création, dans leurs dimensions historique, imaginaire et philosophique. L’exposition accompagne le visiteur dans une grande promenade jalonnée par des documents de toutes les époques, anciennes et moderne, et mettant en scène une aventure où la science et l’imaginaire se côtoient.» L'Atlas Catalan Atlas e Globes. L'astronomie des Césars Francia

	Le Tour du Monde. Exploradores en el siglo XIX
		Museo Zumalakarregui. Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa. «"Le Tour du Monde" fue la pionera de las revistas de viaje. Se editó en Paris entre 1860 y 1914, pero nos hemos limitado a escoger sus 12 primeros años. Además de los relatos de los principales exploradores de la época, ofrecía grabados de los mejores ilustradores del momento. Este CD contiene una selección de estas imágenes, que aún hoy siguen siendo extraordinarias.» España

	Lewis and Clark
		The Academy of Natural Sciences. «In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and a party of several dozen men known as the "Corps of Discovery" on a journey that would take them two and a half years to complete. The expedition has been known to generations of Americans as a grand, romantic adventure of discovery and as a search for a water route to the Pacific Ocean. But it was about so very much more. The explorers brought back detailed descriptions of the flora, fauna, and general topography of the American Northwest, as well as maps and as many specimens as they could collect and carry.» EEUU - inglés

	Lewis and Clark as Naturalists
		National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution. «...you will be able to follow the Lewis and Clark trail, and discover the flora and fauna as they described it along the way. You can either choose the interactive map, or browse the collection by category.» «On May 21, 1804, under a threatening sky, blusterous winds, and later, hard rain, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and 43 men left the town of St. Charles, Missouri on the north bank of the Missouri River. Shoving off to three rounds of cheers from "gentlemen on the bank" (Clark) they began a journey like no other in the short history of the United States, and like none since.» EEUU - inglés

	Lewis and Clark: Mapping the West
		National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution. «At the time of the expedition, the United States of America had just acquired from France a vast area of the North American interior. Called the Louisiana Purchase, this area included much of what are now the 15 states of Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and his supporters wanted to learn more about this new area of the country, its waterways, its inhabitants, its natural resources, and its possibilities for settlement by Americans. One of the chief purposes of the Corps of Discovery expedition was to map the new Northwest territory, to fill in the empty spaces on the maps of the time.» EEUU - inglés

	Láminas del Centro de Estudios de Castilla-La Mancha
		Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Interesante muestra de mapas antiguos. España

	Map Collections: 1500-2004
		Library of Congress. «The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress holds more than 4.5 million items, of which Map Collections represents only a small fraction, those that have been converted to digital form. The focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were created from maps and atlases and, in general, are restricted to items that are not covered by copyright protection.» EEUU - inglés

	Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870
		Library of Congress. «This collection of Liberia maps includes twenty examples from the American Colonization Society (ACS), organized in 1817 to resettle free black Americans in West Africa. These maps show early settlements in Liberia, indigenous political subdivisions, and some of the building lots that were assigned to settlers. This on-line presentation also includes other nineteenth-century maps of Liberia: a map prepared for a book first published in the 1820's by ACS agent Jehudi Ashmun, a map showing the areas in Liberia that were ceded to the society by indigenous chiefs, and a detailed map dated 1869 by a man thought to be the black American explorer Benjamin Anderson.» Liberia

	Mississagi River Valley (The)
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «Carving its way through the Precambrian Shield, the Mississagi River meets Lake Huron at Blind River, Ontario. In the past the Mississagi served as a route through the wilderness of Northern Ontario for the nomadic Ojibwa tribes. It gave settlers access to the Mississagi River Valley, which is the area from Wharncliffe north to Aubrey Falls.» Canadá

	Museo Nazionale della Montagna - "Duca degli Abruzzi"
		«Fondato nel 1874 ad opera del Club Alpino Italiano, attualmente il Museo opera con un'ampia e composita attività di rilievo nazionale e internazionale. Ospita una vasta documentazione sugli aspetti naturalistico-ambientali della montagna, sulle sue tradizioni e sulla pratica alpinistica nelle sue varie manifestazioni ed è sede di mostre. Nel museo funzionano inoltre due centri di documentazione e una cineteca storica.» Italia

	Museo del Canal Interoceánico de Panamá
		Panama

	Museo del Desierto
		«El Museo del Desierto se encuentra ubicado en el Centro Metropolitano Parque las Maravillas al oriente de la ciudad de Saltillo, Coahuila.» «El Desierto Chihuahuense se ubica en 10 estados de la República Mexicana -Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Durango, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí y parte de Hidalgo, Querétaro y Aguascalientes- y dos de la Unión Americana -Nuevo México y Texas-. Es el desierto más grande de Norteamérica y tema de estudio del Museo del Desierto.» México

	Museo della Bonifica
		«Il Museo Civico di San Donà di Piave, istutiuto nel 1975, è stato inaugurato e aperto al pubblico nell'ottebre del 1983 assumendo la denominazione di "Museo della Bonifica". Esso raccoglie immagini, plastici, oggetti che illustrano, seguendo un criterio espositivo cronologico, le vicende della trasformazione del territorio Sandonatese dall'antichità ai nostri giorni.» Italia

	Notre-Dame-des-Prairies : d'hier à aujourd'hui
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «Le territoire du village de l’Industrie, rappelons-le, faisait partie à l’origine des seigneuries de Lavaltrie, de Lanoraie et de D’Aillebout jusqu’aux premiers rangs du canton de Kildare en incluant les rangs de la Chaloupe. De forme irégulière, il s’étend sur huit milles de long et sur près de deux milles de largeur.» Canadá

	Nova Scotia. Acadian Historic Atlas
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «The first non-native people to change the cultural history of Nova Scotia in a significant and permanent way were the French colonists. These courageous people, faced with a geography and socio-cultural reality different from their distant homeland, developed their own culture and the Acadian people were born.» Canadá

	Oceans Alive
		Museum of Science. «If you look down at our planet from outer space, most of what you see is water; 71% of the planet's surface is covered by ocean and it is because of this that the Earth is sometimes called "the water planet". Only about three-tenths of our globe is covered with land.» EEUU - inglés

	Okanagan Valley (The): a corridor of cultural experiences
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «The Okanagan Cultural Corridor is a cultural tourism development project, supported by Tourism British Columbia. The Project takes its name from the Okanagan Valley, a semi-arid, fruit and wine-producing region some 250 kilometers in length, nestled in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada.» Canadá

	Ontario Streams Restoration
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «In this era, economic growth and sustainable development bring to mind the contradictions of how we, as a society, think of the Ontario landscape and its natural resources. We need to understand how human actions have impacted the environment in order to predict what our impact will be in the future. This perspective requires comprehensive land use planning; and the solutions formed consider all users of natural resources. This is commonly referred to as an ecosystem approach where economic, social, physical, natural and cultural interests are considered connected and integrated into a comprehensive land use plan. The entire drainage network of a river, or watershed, is a natural geographic unit that represents a functioning ecosystem.» Canadá

	Ordnance Survey Drawings
		The British Library. Collect Britain. «The original large-scale drawings made for the famous one-inch-to-the-mile maps present a detailed picture of England and Wales between the 1780s and 1840.» Reino Unido

	Orinoco
		Museo de Ciencias. «Para Venezuela, el Orinoco constituye la primera reserva hídrica. La historia y el significado de este gigante de agua que comienza a formarse en las espesas selvas de la Sierra de Parima, en el estado Amazonas, y que cruza de Este a Oeste el escudo guyanés, para luego, en un cerrado giro, atravesar el país en sentido contrario, recibiendo el tributo de 31 afluentes principales, ríos andinos, llaneros y guyaneses, y de más de 2 mil afluentes menores.» Venezuela

	Orlando Ribeiro
		Site sobre Orlando Ribeiro (1911-1997), geógrafo, fotógrafo e escritor. Contém informação biográfica detalhada, a bibliografia completa de Orlando Ribeiro, fotografias das suas visgens e o catalogo online da sua biblioteca científica pessoal. Portugal

	Our Northern Heritage 1800-2002
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «You’ve arrived at the Vancouver Maritime Museum’s Northern Heritage image database. At this site, you will find over 2,500 images related to the Arctic and the St. Roch, the first vessel to transit the Northwest Passage as well as the first vessel to circumnavigate the entire North American continent.» Canadá

	Paisajes de España
		Centro Virtual Cervantes. «Una de las mejores maneras de conocer un país es realizar un minucioso recorrido por sus pueblos, sus campos, sus ciudades, sus regiones... Los fotógrafos, a lo largo de su vida profesional, se convierten en testigos silenciosos de la realidad de un pueblo, y captan con sus cámaras las esencias más profundas de una tierra. A través de las obras que se exponen a continuación, nos ofrecen la oportunidad de acercarnos un poco más a España, y conocer así hasta los más sutiles matices de su cultura. La selección de obras del fotógrafo Eduardo Mencos conforman aquí amenos itinerarios, que se agrupan según las provincias o regiones que recorren.» Recoge 454 imágenes divididas en 21 colecciones. España

	Passages: A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration
		National Library of Canada. «The truth is that America, and North America in particular, was discovered - if we can use that word - one step at a time, by a number of people too great to count. In terms of geographical discoveries, it took more than four centuries of exploration, from the time of the arrival of the first Europeans, to discover and traverse a navigable passage across North America linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans - the famous Northwest Passage.» Canadá

	Patrimoine Neigette
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «La Municipalité régionale de comté (MRC) de Rimouski-Neigette est située dans le Bas-Saint-Laurent, entre le fleuve et le Nouveau-Brunswick. Aux îles, estrans et terrasses propres au littoral succède une contrée plus accidentée et bien plus vaste, couverte par les monts Notre-Dame. La beauté et la richesse du pays de la mer et de l'arrière-pays de monts expliquent la concentration de territoires voués à la conservation ou à la récréation...» Canadá

	Patrimoine historique numérisé du Haut-Saint-François
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «Ce site se veut un hommage à notre passé et un regard sur notre présent. Nous vous invitons à contempler notre belle région vallonnée qu'est le Haut-Saint-François. Vous découvrirez en naviguant sur ce site dynamique les artistes, les bâtiments patrimoniaux, les gens de chez-nous et les attraits qui composent, en partie, notre coin de pays.» Canadá

	Paysages et architecture rurale entre Domes, Sancy et Artense, cantons de Rochefort-Montagne, Tauves et La Tour d'Auvergne.
		Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. Itinéraires du Patrimoine. «Le massif du Sancy est un ancien volcan complexe, constitué de plusieurs ensembles : le massif de la Banne d'Ordanche (à gauche), les monts Dore (à droite), séparés du Puy de Sancy par la Dordogne. L'érosion glaciaire a fortement modelé les reliefs, encaissant le cours de la rivière.» Francia

	Photographic Exploration of Canada with Malak (A)
		Museum of New France, Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation. Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «This site full of historical detail provides visitors of all ages with descriptions of the lives of the inhabitants of New France from the XVIth to the XVIIIth century, as well as presenting the places they explored and inhabited. Through Malak's discerning eye, visitors can step back in time to see how the territory that would become Canada evolved throughout its history. The site includes photos taken in several regions of the country, with a focus on Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba.» Canadá

	Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910
		Library of Congress. «...portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial archival documents, and other works drawn from the Library of Congress's General Collections and Rare Books and Special Collections Division. The collection's 138 volumes depict the land and its resources; the conflicts between settlers and Native peoples; the experience of pioneers and missionaries, soldiers and immigrants and reformers; the growth of local communities and local cultural traditions; and the development of regional and national leadership in agriculture, business, medicine, politics, religion, law, journalism, education, and the role of women.» EEUU - inglés

	Placentia: The Early Years
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «The struggle for Placentia in the sixteenth century involved the desperate fight for power between European nations for supremacy in the New World. The importance of Placentia relates to the importance of "fish" to the European markets. The capability of prolonged conservation made it possible to preserve food on transatlantic voyages to markets in Europe.» Canadá

	Railroad Maps, 1828-1900
		Library of Congress. «The Railroad maps represent an important historical record, illustrating the growth of travel and settlement as well as the development of industry and agriculture in the United States. They depict the development of cartographic style and technique, highlighting the achievement of early railroaders. Included in the collection are progress report surveys for individual lines, official government surveys, promotional maps, maps showing land grants and rights-of-way, and route guides published by commercial firms.» EEUU - inglés

	Red Island Heritage
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «This site contains text, photos, maps, video and music clips about Red Island and the French Fishery and its influence on the people and communities of the Port au Port Peninsula. You will get a glimpse of the past and of the present.» Canadá

	Sable Island
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «Sable Island, 300 km south-east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, is renowned for its wild horses and shipwrecks. It is also an island with a fascinating geology and natural history that reflect the challenge of surviving wind, waves and isolation.» Canadá

	Sable Island: A Story of Survival
		Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History. Virtual Museum Canada. «Sable Island is renowned for its wild horses and shipwrecks. It is also an island with a fascinating geology and natural history that reflect the challenge of surviving wind, waves and isolation.» Canadá

	Saguenay - An Exceptional Fjord !
		Musée du Fjord. Virtual Museum Canada. «The purpose of this site is to allow the public to discover and appreciate the natural miracle of the Saguenay Fjord. We also wish to provide clear, accessible and serious information about the most significant aspects of its environment and its history.» Canadá

	Scott Polar Research Institute's Museum
		University of Cambridge. «holds a collection of artifacts, paintings, drawings, photographs (including cinematographic film, lantern slides, and Daguerreotypes), and other material. A proportion of this is exhibited in a private museum on the ground floor which is freely open to persons with an interest in polar regions.» Reino Unido

	Secrets of the Ice. An Antarctic Expedition
		Museum of Science. «Antarctica is a place like no other. Ice and snow cover 98% of the continent while high mountain peaks and a few other bare rocky areas make up the only visible land. It is a region of extremes: the coldest, windiest, driest, and highest of all the continents. Stormy waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans surround Antarctica keeping it isolated and alone at the bottom of the world.» EEUU - inglés

	Siberian Landscapes: Nenets Reindeer Herders
		Heidi Bradner. EEUU - inglés

	St. Lawrence: Maritime Seaway and Economic Centre of Canada
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «For Canada, no other river had such a wide impact on the history, economy and society than the St. Lawrence. From the hunting camps of the First Nations to the St. Lawrence Seaway, the river has seen numerous developments and modes of occupation. Consequently understanding the regional geography of the St. Lawrence provides numerous aspects about Eastern Canada.» Canadá

	SydenhamDiscovery.ca
		Strathroy Middlesex Museum. Virtual Museum Canada. «SydenhamDiscovery.ca is a virtual exhibit exploring the culture, geology and biology of Southwestern Ontario's Sydenham River.» Canadá

	Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991
		Library of Congress. «The Panoramic Photograph Collection contains approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. These panoramas offer an overview of the nation, its enterprises and its interests, with a focus on the start of the twentieth century when the panoramic photo format was at the height of its popularity. Subject strengths include: agricultural life; beauty contests; disasters; engineering work such as bridges, canals and dams; fairs and expositions; military and naval activities, especially during World War I; the oil industry; schools and college campuses, sports, and transportation. The images date from 1851 to 1991 and depict scenes in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. More than twenty foreign countries and a few U.S. territories are also represented.» EEUU - inglés

	The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
		Library of Congress. «Most of the items presented here are documented in Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789: A Guide to the Collections in the Library of Congress compiled by John R. Sellers and Patricia Molen van Ee in 1981. The bibliography contains approximately 2,000 maps and charts. Over the next several years many of the maps and charts in this bibliography will be added to the online collection each month.» EEUU - inglés

	The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
		American Museum of Natural History. «The Exhibition... documented one of the greatest tales of survival in expedition history: Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 voyage to the Antarctic. Just one day's sail from the continent, the ship Endurance became trapped in sea ice. Frozen fast for ten months, the ship was crushed and destroyed by ice pressure, and the crew was forced to abandon ship. After camping on the ice for five months, Shackleton made two open boat journeys, one of which—a treacherous 800-mile ocean crossing to South Georgia Island—is now considered one of the greatest boat journeys in history. Trekking across the mountains of South Georgia, Shackleton reached the island's remote whaling station, organized a rescue team, and saved all of the men he had left behind.» EEUU - inglés

	The Missouri: South Dakota's River Legend
		By Greg Latza. The Digital Journalist. «Milton liked to refer to the Missouri as The Big Road because, before the dams, it was a thoroughfare for travelers. But the Missouri means more to us than any hard road. Its economic, military, agricultural, environmental. sporting and cultural implications have endured as long as man has lived here. Flowing through seven states, the 2,341-mile Missouri is the world's eighth longest river. It would rank third if we could persuade mapmakers that the Mississippi is just its tributary.» EEUU - inglés

	The Russian State Museum of Arctic and Antarctic
		«It is one of the largest ones in the World devoted to the discovery and history of exploration, natural environment, and the economy and culture of the polar regions of the planet. It is the only one in the World having both Arctic and Antarctic expositions. Nowadays the museum collection contains near 75,000 exhibits of which many are unique and date back to the XVI century.» Rusia

	The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection
		Library of Congress. «The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection of the South Texas Border Area, a collection of over 8,000 items, is a unique visual resource documenting the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the early 1900s. Donated by the Runyon family to the Center for American History in 1986, it includes glass negatives, lantern slides, nitrate negatives, prints, and postcards, representing the life's work of commercial photographer Robert Runyon (1881-1968), a longtime resident of South Texas. His photographs document the history and development of South Texas and the border, including the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. military presence at Fort Brown and along the border prior to and during World War I, and the growth and development of the Rio Grande Valley.» EEUU - inglés

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