Convict. International businesswoman. Horse thief. Mother of seven. This is the unbelievable story of one the true characters of early Australian settlement.

Although the vessel is suspected to be of English or French origin, there remain plenty of questions yet to be solved.

Both the presence and subsequent removal of the state have caused division and consternation in the Connecticut city.

Was Australia really founded as the world’s largest prison? We look at the true story behind Australia's convict foundation.

Further investigations are planned in 2027 to examine more than 40 anomalies underwater off the coast of Dominican Republic.

The replica found at St Mary Overie Dock in London presents the dramatic story of Drake’s theft-filled circumnavigation.

The Dutch sailing ship offers the ultimate off-grid experience, voyaging from the Magellan Strait to Tristan da Cunha and Rapa Nui.

Brûlé explored the Great Lakes region and immersed himself in the culture of the Wendat Nation before meeting a sticky end.

Although the Genoese sailor is typically credited with finding the archipelago, three other 15th-century explorers also have a claim.

Every single word on this website is written by a human, and every image is either a piece of human art or a photo taken by a human.

The Greenlander Leif Erikson was the first European to reach America, 500 years before Columbus. But did it matter?

The cargo is unlike any ever found in northern Europe while the shipwreck has been described as a “time capsule”.

An interview with marine archeologist Andreas Kallmeyer Bloch about investigating the Havmanden shipwreck in Sweden.

The Svalbard whalers endured a lifetime of poor diet, hard labour and perilous living both at home and in the Arctic.

How, after four centuries of desperate British endeavour, an obsessive Norwegian finally made the breakthrough in a slender fishing boat.

An exclusive interview with the historian Soledad González Díaz, who helped unearth the foundation coin of the “Spanish Roanoke”.

The Havmanden Mutiny led to the brutal murder of the ship’s captain, several officers and the governor of Denmark’s first Caribbean colony.

The latest round of DNA analysis has solved a 167-year-old mystery and identified the relative of a current BBC newsreader.

Tristan da Cunha was discovered by a visually impaired Portuguese mariner who lent his name to the island but never landed on it.

On his third and final voyage, the English explorer lost all control on an idyllic island in the South Pacific.

The Australian festival celebrates Captain Cook's legacy alongside the naming of the kangaroo and Aboriginal heritage

Nearly a century after the event, Emil Bessels was accused of murdering Charles Francis Hall high in the Arctic Circle.

When worlds collided: A regional guide to the Columbian Exchange, disease and population collapse in the Americas After 1492.

The Norse likely relied on berries and wild plants to stave off illness on long-distance voyages, including to North America.

The legendary island of Hy-Brasil bewitched cartographers and explorers for centuries, yet was little more than a figment of the imagination.

John Franklin's lost expedition and how it took 170 years to locate the missing ships, the Erebus and the Terror.

Based on the scant historical records available, we present the early life and voyages to America of the Italian explorer John Cabot.

Microplastics and garbage patches of the world are created by the same currents that aided great explorers in the Age of Discovery.

The Magellan-Elcano voyage: What made it simultaneously both the greatest and most disastrous expedition in history.

Ever since the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen sighted Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in 1722, visitors have been fascinated by the moai, the mysterious enormous stone statues found throughout the island. At...

How a group of 16th-century Portuguese explorers mistook a bay for a river and misnamed the most famous city in Brazil.

On Christmas Day 1492, Christopher Columbus lost the Santa Maria, his flagship on his first voyage. And all because of a careless cabin boy.

1492: we all know that this is the date when the new continent or ‘terra incognita’ was discovered by the famous Christopher Columbus. Yet it would take 15 years for it to receive its final name of Am...

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and...

Captaining a sailing ship during the Age of Sail was surely one of the most demanding and challenging jobs on the planet. Often hundreds or thousands of nautical miles away from whichever whimsical mo...

Whatever you think of him, Christopher Columbus is surely one of the most consequential figures in all history. When his flagship, the Santa Maria, landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492, it set...