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  • Google - our favourite general search site
  • Google Scholar
  • Oanda - an excellent currency converter

  • World Clock - a useful site for seeing what time it is anywhere in the world. Also a world (ie holiday) calendar
  • Daylight Saving Time - worldwide daylight saving
  • Good Business Day - provides financial working days and public holidays of all the major countries of the world
  • CIA World Fact Book - information, maps and data about every country in the world
  • Maps - an excellent resource - University of Texas Library
  • Maps of World - a world atlas online, with customised maps and information
  • United Nations Atlas of the Oceans - an excellent source of various maritime information

  • Time Out Guides - great guides to most of the cities in which our offices are based
  • The Evening Standard's London Guide - a terrific site for Londoners and visitors alike
  • Transport for London - information on all forms of public transport, as well as maps and journey planner

  • Dictionary Link - Free online dictionary, thesaurus and language resources
  • The Reference Desk - a fascinating portal to information, calculators etc.
  • Virtual Reference Desk - links to many good reference works
  • Wikipedia - a good free on-line encyclopaedia
  • Wikimapia - a project to map the whole planet earth. Everyone can plot places and find locations using either satellite images or maps.
  • www.answers.com - a free on-line encyclopaedia, dictionary and almanac

  • Travelocity - plan, organise and book your travel on-line

  • Mission Impossible - a great on-line sporting and entertainment ticket agency

  • infobel.com - a world-wide telephone number and e-mail address finder

  • Free Translation.com - a free service to roughly translate some languages to and from English
  • OnlineConversion.com - convert just about anything to anything else

  • Panama Canal - watch your ship transit the Miraflores Locks. Click on Live Camera in the index. If there is a ship you are interested in, e-mail the camera operator at aep-osu@pancanal.com and he will zoom the camera onto it
  • FotoFlite - large library of maritime aerial photographs, with over half a million photographs of ships available on line
  • Portpictures - large library of excellent quality marine images
  • TRANS-CAMS - a collection of maritime and other webcams including major ports of the world, canals, shipyards and even ships at sea
  • Tour Pour La Mer 2009 - in support of The Mission to Seafarers, a charity regularly supported by the UK Club