Links

Useful links

Marco Ramerini’s excellent colonial history website

Author, historian, voyager; my mate Ian Burnet

Want to tour the Spice Islands by boat?

Royal Armouries

Sydney’s Historic Fleet

The US Artilleryman magazine

Going diving on Banda?

Moleiro Antique map & atlas facsimiles

Great Antique maps

The UK Ordnance Society for artillery

The Royal Armouries

How to sail on the Duyfken

US Coast Defence Study Group

UK Fortress Study Group

Lonely Planet tour guides

The Hakuyt Society; a broad series of historic accounts

Great small fleet of Spanish replica ships you can sail on

A really amazing historic map collection

Recent Posts:

Closing the globe’s circumference for the first time.

When and where did those sailing east and those sailing west first meet?

A quick look at Bodrum, Turkey

Bodrum in Turkey is a fascinating harbour city with a very long history, and some great attractions…

Tragic Lost Maps No. 3: The Peutinger Map

An astonishing Road Map of the Roman Empire, copied in the twelfth century from the lost fourth century version, and extending from Portugal to China!

Whats left of Three Ancient Wonders of the World?

Lists of Wonders of the World go back a very long time, all the way to the era of Herodotus