
Recommended
Websites
for further explorations ofThe Greatest Places
Last updated 2/16/98
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GENERAL:
http://www.greatestplaces.org/teachers
http://www.xe.net/currency
(a currency converter)
http://ceps.nasm.edu:2020/GAW/GFS/intro.html
(Geography from Space-Smithsonian)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
(National Geographic Society Home Page)
http://everest.hunter.cuny.edu/mp/index.html
(A good page for geography links)
http://kartoserver.frw.ruu.nl/html/staff/oddens/oddens.htm
(A
great geography links page)
http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/glob/glob1.htm
(The Great Globe Gallery)
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html
(Eart/Moon Viewer; you select the views)
http://earthrise.sdsc.edu/index.html
(Photos from shuttles, political & topographic)
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/gcraft/notes/mapproj/mapproj.html
(A
mapping link)
http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/world/geog.htm
(A great links site for geography)
AMAZON BOTSWANA/OKAVANGO
DELTA GREENLAND MADAGASCAR NAMIBIA TIBET
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http://www.bdt.org.br/bdt/index/amazonia
(Amazon links to organizations, projects)
http://www.mos.org/sln/rainforest/rainforest-home.html
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sergiok/brenvironment.html#start
(Brasilia eviron. sites)
http://psg.com/~walter/brasil.html
(The
Wonders of Brazil-a tour of brazil, with links)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/okavango/education/index.html
(NGS)
http://africantravel.com/botomp.html
(Okavango
tourist information)
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Botswana.html
(K-12 links)
http://www.greenland-guide.dk/(The
official Greenland Tourist Agency site)
http://www.kms.min.dk/geodesy/greenland.htm
(A digital relief map of Greenland)
http://members.iquest.net/~webweavers/isfa.htm
(International String Figure Association)
http://embassy.org/madagascar/biblio.html
(The official website of the embassy)
http://www.icotec.com/Madweb
http://www.world-travel-net.co.uk/atlas/country/mad_atl.htm
http://www.air-mad.com/index.htm
(The home page for Air Madagascar; great pictures)
http://www.cable.com/madagas/madagas.htm
(Madigaskara
home page with links)
http://lalo.inria.fr/Madagascar.html
(A good website for links to Madagascar)
http://www.saexpress.co.za/saxseven/wvb/wvb.htm
(A picture tour of the Namib)
http://www.hotwired.com/planet/96/01/pw.nami.skel.html
(Stories,
pictures of the coast)
http://www.africa.com/~venture/africa/south/namb/nam.htm
(A commercial tourism page)
http://www.iwwn.com.na/namtour/northern.html
(The website of the Tourism Ministry)
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Namibia.html
(K-12 links)
http://www.pbs.org/edens/namib
(A PBS website resource site for "Burning Shore")
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/rajs/Shangri_La.html
(A good overview of country and culture)
http://omni.cc.purdue.edu/~wtv/tibet/tour.html
(A word and picture tour of Tibet)
http://link.lanic.utexas.edu/asnic/countries/tibet/
(A good source of web links)
http://www.greatestplaces.org