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Maritime Archaeology

Maritime Archaeology - Australia

• Archaeology of Whaling in Southern Australia and New Zealand - The AWSANZ Project
• Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities - Historic Shipwrecks
• Flinders University - Archaeology Home Page
• Heritage Branch, NSW Department of Planning, NSW - NSW Heritage Branch
• James Cook University - Dept. of Anthropology, Archaeology and Sociology 
• South Australian Maritime Heritage - Dept of Environment and Natural Resources
• Department of Maritime Archaeology - Western Australian Museum-Shipwreck Galleries
• HMS Pandora Queensland Museum - The Pandora Project
• Victorian Heritage Register and the Heritage Inventory On-line - Dept of Planning and Community Devlopment

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Maritime Archaeology - World Wide

• 2001 UNESCO Convention on underwater cultural heritage
• Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology (ACUA)
• International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
• EARTHWATCH.html

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Maritime Archaeology - Europe-Mediterranean

• L'Archéologie sous les mers. Techniques et recherches
• Maritime Archaeology in Sweden

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Maritime Archaeology - United Kingdom

• Institute of Archaeology, University College London
• Nautical Archaeology Society
• Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Southampton

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Maritime Archaeology - America

• Titanic resources From NASA
• Northern Shipwrecks Database, featuring more than 100,000 Northern American shipwrecks, is a research project of Northern Maritime Research
• American Civil War ironclad CSS Neuse : History, Wreck, & Recovery

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Maritime History

• An Illustrated History of shipbuilding
• The Maritime History Archive, Memorial University of Newfoundland

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Legislation

Commonwealth

• Historic Shipwrecks Act, 1976: Site hosted by the Australasian Legal Institute.
• Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986 : Site hosted by the Australasian Legal Institute.

State

• New South Wales: Heritage Act, 1977 - updated 21 July 1999. Shipwrecks - see relics provisions, s60 and s139.
• Northern Territory: Heritage Conservation Act 1991
• Queensland: Queensland Heritage Act, 1992 (You will need the free Acrobat Reader).
• Queensland: Cultural Record (Landscapes Queensland and Queensland Estate) Act, 1987 (You will need the free Acrobat Reader).
• South Australia: Heritage Act 1993
• South Australia: Historic Shipwrecks Act, 1981
• Tasmania: Historic Cultural Heritage Act 1995 Shipwrecks - Part 9, s64-72
• Victoria: Heritage Act, 1995 Shipwrecks - Schedule 5.
• Victoria: Historic Shipwreck General Regulations 1996
• Western Australia: Maritime Archaeology Act 1973

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Maritime Museums

Australia

• The Australian National Maritime Museum
• Western Australian Museum - Shipwreck Galleries

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UK

• National Maritime Museum Greenwich
• Greenwich Maritime Institute
• The Cutty Sark

Scandanavia

• The Vasa Museum

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America

• The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, Victoria
• The Steamer William G. Mather Museum ,1925 Great Lakes Bulk freighter
• The National Maritime Museum Association, NMMA
• Mystic Seaport Museum, museum of America and the sea
• The Nantucket Life Saving Museum
• The San Diego Maritime Museum
• Grays Harbor Historical Seaport
• The Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston, NY
• U-505, Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
• The US Navy Historical Center
• Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass
• The Catalina Island Museum, Catalina Island, California
• The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

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