Antarctica links:

Australian Antarctic Division

Explore Antarctic Islands (look around, zoom in and out - requires QuickTime)

National Library of Australia (search for ' Antarctica ' - includes images from Amundsen's voyage)

Seals on South Georgia Island (look around, zoom in and out - requires QuickTime)

Shackleton's expedition (information, interactive site)

South: the race to the pole (Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen)

Art/craft/music links:

Knot-tying 1 (with animated 'how to' illustrations)

Knot-tying 2 (with animated "how to" illustrations)

Make a sea monster mask (template and all instructions included)

Songs of the sea (music to each song plays automatically making it easy to sing the lyrics; each song has links to historical and other background information)

History links:

Abel Tasman (details of his 1642 and 1644 voyages)

Fatal attraction (discover the fate of John Franklin, Governor of Van Diemen's Land )

Flinders and Baudin (ABC's The Navigators)

Flinders and Baudin concept map (also related change over time images 1, 2 and 3; all pdf's)

Flinders (State Library of NSW - journal, maps, belongings)

Flinders' papers ( National Maritime Museum , Greenwich )

Flinders: the first 'Australian' ( National Maritime Museum , Greenwich )

Grand designs and great failures (web-based activity for grades 7 and 8)

Life at sea in the age of sail (from the National Maritime Museum , Greenwich )

Ocean exploration (timeline of ocean exploration; meet scientists and oceanographers)

Pitcairn Islands study centre (Bligh, the Bounty and Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands )

Ocean exploration link:

Ocean exploration (meet scientists and oceanographers; timeline of ocean exploration)

Pirate links:

Hunt for pirates (an internet treasure hunt on pirates)

Pirate - Blackbeard (comprehensive information; also Blackbeard's ship)

Pirates (from National Maritime Museum , Greenwich – links to piracy and buccaneering images)

Research links:

Tasmanian images (search the State Library of Tasmania for 'ship', 'ships', 'port' etc.)

National Library of Australia (search their pictorial collection)

Ship and boat Links:

Batavia (replica 17^th century square rigger - original was shipwrecked – see our shipwrecks page)

Design and technology 1- buoyant boats (web based activity for grades 5 and 6)

Design and technology 2 - Give me a tall ship (web based activity for grades 7 and 8)

Design and technology 3 - What floats your boat? (web based activity for grades 7-8)

Endeavour (replica barque)

A hot list on sailing ships (links to many sites on this topic)

Lady Nelson (replica brig)

Make a model tall ship (templates and all instructions included)

May Queen (Tasmanian trading ketch, built at Franklin )

Sailing ships- European (ABC's The Navigators)

Sailing ships - rigging (database of rigging, by type of ship)

Sailing ships - rigging ( Norway )

Sailing ships - rigging 1610 (Dutch East Indian ship)

Shipping list for Hobart (current)

Submarines (comprehensive history of the submarine from 1580 to 2000)

Teaching and learning links:

Oil spills (Australian Maritime Safety Authority education resource; includes teachers' pages)

Marine and Safety Tasmania (click on Teacher Resource Kit link near the bottom of the page to download and print a PDF)

Marine Institute (choose from 24 topics designed for teachers & students)

Print a map (from National Geographic - choose the world or just part to use with your class)

Women at sea links:

Viking women (from the BBC)

Voyaging through strange seas (from the National Library of Australia - compares the experiences and voyages of four women who travelled in the Pacific between 1768 to 1851)

Women at war (from the BBC - explores the diverse roles of women in the midst of warfare)

Women in the US Navy (includes links to oral histories, documents, photos and artwork).