Global Sea Routes

Welcome to the official channel of Global Sea Routes. GSR project is a geospatial relational database aimed at the representation of European commercial sea routes on a global scale in the early modern and modern ages, in order to understand how world interconnectedness, in terms of maritime passage times from European ports to overseas destinations, evolved over four centuries (1500-1900). Within the framework of GSR project, a case study has also been developed: that of the Austrian frigate Novara. A series of digital multimedia and interactive tools have been realised, in order to offer a 3D visualisation of the ship, with her structure and details, and to tell her story and evolution as well as to discover the scientific collections brought back from the circumnavigation (1857-1859). GSR is a project developed by a team of researchers of the Department of Humanities (DiSU) at the University of Trieste (Italy). For more information, visit the website: https://globalsearoutes.net/