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Navigating to Knowledge: Deepwater Archaeology and Geocaching in Support of Wisconsin's Maritime Heritage
This project will develop outreach materials to inform the public about the historical, cultural, and economic significance of the Great Lakes, waterborne commerce, and seafaring life and to foster stewardship and preservation of Wisconsin’s Great Lakes shipwrecks. Specifically, it will provide archaeological documentation of six nineteenth-century deepwater shipwrecks of historical and recreational significance using high-resolution photo mosaics, still and video images, and diagnostic measurements. Ten shoreside geocache courses requiring learning about Wisconsin’s maritime heritage will be developed to increase the public’s knowledge of and involvement with these shipwrecks. A geocache is a high-tech “treasure hunt” using a hand-held GPS unit instead of a compass to find a hidden container or cache. Products will be incorporated into the Web site www.wisconsinshipwrecks.org and will be shared via multimedia presentations and new roadside historic markers.
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