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Welcome to National Geographic Online—your passport to the world and the World Wide Web! For more than a century National Geographic has gone on assignment to bring you the most exciting and authoritative scientific and educational information. Now, we invite you to join us! Apply for your passport, and click on the icons within it, or the hot-links on the Boarding Pass, to link directly to features prepared exclusively for cyberspace. Chat with photographers, writers, and artists, and exchange ideas with the leading scientific minds of our time. In preparation for your own expeditions, discover our travel area, then traverse the terrains of the latest in digital mapping from National Geographic’s Cartographic Division. Explore National Geographic Online and then explore the real world—We’d like to be your link to the world and the World Wide Web.
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This is your passport to adventures with the National Geographic Society on the World Wide Web. The diagram below will help you navigate our site:
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Feature Assignments—putting YOU on assignment!
Each month, National Geographic Online will debut several new features designed to allow your virtual participation in an adventure or discovery.

Diversions—Check out Send a Postcard, What in the World?.

Travel—Visit Travel Tours, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER magazine, and more.

The Society—Look behind the scenes at National Geographic. Link to online offerings in Books, the Map Machine, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, TRAVELER, WORLD, Geography Education, Television, and Photography.

Headquarters—Follow the Headquarters link to reach the Committee for Research and Exploration, Glad You Asked, How You Can Help, Education Foundation, National Geography Bee, and Birth of the Society.

NGS Store—Order National Geographic products online.

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Use the Register button to access registration. Registration:
  • makes you eligible for online contests.
  • allows you to receive updates from National Geographic Online.
It only takes a few minutes, and the rewards are instantaneous!
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Just as explorers might use binoculars, a hand-held recorder, or the perfect lens to capture action in the field, Web adventurers also use special equipment to make the most of their online experience.

Like other Web sites worldwide, we are pushing the possibilities for motion and sound and dynamic interactions online, so you’ll want to get all the right tools to fully enjoy National Geographic Online. Our site has been designed to work best with the Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers and the utilities and plug-ins that complement them. Go to Gear and get equipped!

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If you did not find the answers you needed here, please send us e-mail.
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“National Geographic” and the yellow rectangle are registered trademarks of the National Geographic Society, and “National Geographic Online” is a trademark of the National Geographic Society. All contents posted on National Geographic Online by the National Geographic Society and its subsidiaries are the property of the National Geographic Society or its subsidiaries and may not be reproduced or published without the express permission of the National Geographic Society.

The National Geographic Society and its subsidiaries make every effort to ensure the timeliness and accuracy of all materials posted on National Geographic Online, but cannot guarantee the content of material on National Geographic Online or in external links. The Society is not responsible for third-party material appearing on National Geographic Society forums and retains the right to remove messages or material that it, in its sole discretion, deems illegal, offensive, or otherwise unacceptable.

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