This BBC database offers a guide to history, economic backgrounds of countries, and history.
BBC Country Profiles
Shepherd Software offers many wonderful online learning games. World Geography is one of them. They also have a free, downloadable blank map of the world you can download.
World Geography Game
Fine and rare original antique maps, sea charts and atlases.
Antique Maps and Atlases
The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) is a joint program of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAFGI), and the State of Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys (ADGGS).
You can check out current volcanic activity, volcano info, Alaska Volcano Observatory Online Library, images and more.
Alaska Volcano [...]
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s virtual world takes advantage of a platform known as “Second Life”. This platform is a 3-D online world with a rapidly growing population from 100 countries around the globe. Residents themselves create and build everything from homes, vehicles, stores, and landscapes to educational areas like the map. The Second Life [...]
