Below are 130 Interactive Google Maps of Historic Events:
Please note: In order to obtain the background information, citations, and to see how the route is plotted (as shown at the right), it is recommended that you first visit the map web pages listed below before jumping directly to the associated Google Map, or Google Earth KML file. For some maps, the route is harder to follow in Google Earth because of the distances involved, and you can see the ruins, forts, villages and ships much better in Google Map. While the Google Earth KML files allow you to digitally walk the map from location marker to location marker and see some of the structures rendered in 3D. The embedded map on each page will enable you to try out both Google Map and Google Earth in order for you to see which is better for you. However, the embedded map is a bit harder to use due to its size limitation and you don;t get to see the legend that is within the Google Map.
Each explorer map has an eBook written by the explorer, or a historian, that the maps are based on that enables you to follow events described in the book and zoom in on the forts, palaces, villages and other details.
To make it easier for you to find the interactive Google Map you desire,
I categorized them on separate pages as follows:
Each explorer map has an eBook written by the explorer, or a historian, that the maps are based on that enables you to follow events described in the book and zoom in on the forts, palaces, villages and other details.
To make it easier for you to find the interactive Google Map you desire,
I categorized them on separate pages as follows:
- Explorer and Conqueror Maps with matching eBooks
(some explorers have multiple maps)
Alexander the Great • Roald Amundsen (2) • Samuel White Baker • William Barentsz • Vitus Bering • Benjamin of Tudela • Isabella Lucy Bird • Blackbeard the Pirate • William Bligh • Burke & Wills • Perry McDonough Collins • James Cook • Hernando Cortés • William Dampier • Charles Darwin • De Soto • Sir Francis Drake • Earnest Doudart de Lagrée and Francis Garnier • Ewart Scott Grogan • William Lewis Herndon, USN • Joseph S. Herron • Alexander von Humboldt • Lewis and Clark • Arnold Henry Savage Landor • Dr. David Livingstone (2) • Moses • Mungo Park • Gustav Nachtigal • Afanasy Nikitin • William Gifford Palgrave • Francisco Pizarro • Marco Polo • The 7th Portuguese India Armada • Pytheas • Pedro Fernandez de Quiros • Nain Singh Rawat • Gerhard Rohlfs • Theodore Roosevelt • Frederick Schwatka • Ernest Shackleton • George Simpson • Henry Morton Stanley (2) • Mikael Strandberg (2) • Xuanzang.
- Ancient Ruin and Pyramid Maps
Comparison of Aztec, Egyptian, Inca, Mayan and Chinese Pyramids • Ancient African Ruins • Ancient Ruins of Asia • Ancient Ruins of South and Central America • US Ruins and Historical Sites • Ancient Lost Cities • Classic European Castles • Cities of the Dead: Heaven or Hell? • American Ghost Towns • Nature's Wonders • the Oldest Inhabited Cities • Royal Palaces • and the Oldest Lighthouses: Aged Protectors of Globalization.
- The Works of Artists, Architects and Photographers Maps
Michelangleo • Vincent van Gogh • Frank Lloyd Wright • I.M. Pei • Ansel Adams • The World as seen in Famous Landscape Paintings.
- Sunken Ships and Ship Grave Yards
Sunken ships of the Atlantic Ocean • Pacific Ocean • Indian Ocean • Red Sea • North Sea • Baltic Sea • Mediterranean Sea • Black Sea • Ship Grave Yards.
- Airplane Crash and Train Crash Maps
Commercial Propeller-Driven Airplane Crashes (1920-1960) • Commercial Aircraft Crashes (1961-1970) • Commercial Aircraft Crashes (1971-1980) • Commercial Aircraft Crashes (1981-1990) • Commercial Aircraft Crashes (1991-2000) • Commercial Aircraft Crashes (2001-2010) • Commercial Aircraft Crashes (2011-2020) • Train Wrecks (1830-1930) • Train Wrecks (1931-1949).
- WWII Battle Maps
WWII Battles: The Western Front • The Mediterranean & North African Front • The Eastern Front, German Offensive • The Eastern Front, Soviet Offensive.
- American Civil War and Revolutionary War Maps
American Civil War Part-1 (1861-August 1863) • American Civil War Part-2 (September 1863-1865) • American Revolutionary War.
- Environment, Infrastructure and Geological Phenomena Maps
Environmental Disasters • Most Polluted Places • Oceanic Trenches and Other Undersea Phenomena • Most Deadly Earthquakes • Longest Suspension Bridges • US Infrastructure Nightmares
- Disease Outbreaks
Ebola (1976-2012) • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) (2002-2003) • Salmonella (2011) • U.S. Fungal Meningitis Outbreak -Oct. 2012
- Immigration and Trade Routes
The Oregon, California and Mormon Trails • Exodus • Santa Fe and El Camino Real Trails • The Amistad Slave Route & Revolt • Utopias.
- Crime and Deception
Corporate Crime that helped set the stage for the collapse of the world economy • Banks that received secret loans from the Federal Reserve undisclosed to Congress • Fortune 500 Companies that Receive Government Subsidies While Avoiding Paying Taxes • Mass Shootings in the U.S. Since 2005 (by Mother Jones).
- Histories of Government
History of Republic Forms of Government • Monarchies of Antiquity.
- Mountain Climbing Expeditions and Roller Coasters
1953 Hillary Mount Everest Expedition • 1954 Italian K2 Expedition • The Roller Coasters of Google Map.
- Google Map Oddities and other anomalies Interesting things found in a Google Map of Sunken Ships • More interesting things found in Google Map • Gotta see Google Map anomalies.
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Subjects include: Alexander the Great • Benjamin of Tudela • Hernando Cortés • Burke & Wills • De Soto
Ewart Scott Grogan • Dr.David Livingstone • Marco Polo • Henry Morton Stanley • The Exodus.•
These articles discuss contradictions found online in regard to certain widely known and accepted history. They are the result of comparing location descriptions found in 100+-year old eBooks and ancient maps, against a wide assortment of contradictory information available online, and plotting the locations in a Google Map.
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