a planet or moon). This article focuses on the circumnavigation of Earth. The first circumnavigation of the Earth was the Magellan Expedition, which...
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Peruvian circumnavigation. SMS Novara; 1857–1859; first Austrian circumnavigation. Shenandoah; 1864–65; only Confederate ship to circumnavigate. Captain...
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Magellan expedition (redirect from First circumnavigation of the globe)
km, or 37,560 mi, the nearly three-year voyage achieved the first circumnavigation of Earth in history. It also revealed the vast scale of the Pacific...
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Ferdinand Magellan (section Voyage of circumnavigation)
the circumnavigation route. Commemorations of the circumnavigation include: An exhibition titled "The Longest Journey: the first circumnavigation" was...
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into resupply at the Cape Verde Islands before completing the first circumnavigation on 6 September 1522. Of the initial 270 crew members, only 18 sailors...
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second man to lead a circumnavigation of the globe with a ship intact, and the first Englishman to complete a circumnavigation. Seven months later, Queen...
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Freya Hoffmeister (section Iceland circumnavigation)
completed the fastest-ever sea kayak circumnavigation of Iceland in 33 days. She finished a solo unassisted circumnavigation of the South Island of New Zealand...
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HMS Dolphin (1751) (section First circumnavigation)
1764 and May 1766 Dolphin completed the circumnavigation of the globe. This was the first such circumnavigation of less than two years. During this voyage...
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A circumnavigation of the Earth is a journey from a point around the globe, returning to the point of departure. In a pedestrian circumnavigation, travelers...
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Erden Eruç (category Circumnavigators of the globe)
requirements for a true circumnavigation of the globe. Guinness World Records has officially recognized Eruç for the "First solo circumnavigation of the globe using...
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Francis Drake (category Circumnavigators of the globe)
circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580. This was the first English circumnavigation, and second circumnavigation overall...
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The first aerial circumnavigation of the world was completed in 1924 by four aviators from an eight-man team of the United States Army Air Service, the...
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the fastest circumnavigation, made by a person or team, excluding orbits of Earth from spacecraft. Oceans portal List of circumnavigations Townsend, George...
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Around the world cycling record (redirect from Circumnavigate the world by bicycle)
The fastest known time (FKT) for circumnavigation of the globe by bicycle is awarded for completing a continuous journey around the globe by bicycle and...
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Jessica Watson (category Single-handed circumnavigating sailors)
who was awarded the Order of Australia Medal after attempting a solo circumnavigation at the age of 16. Although her voyage did not meet the distance criterion...
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FAI’s definition of circumnavigation, the length of the Tropic of Cancer. The GlobalFlyer was designed to complete the circumnavigation with minimal reserves...
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The first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth took place from August 1803 to August 1806 and was carried out on two ships, the Nadezhda and the Neva...
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Enrique of Malacca (category Circumnavigators of the globe)
which is left to complete the circumnavigation. It is not known if he ever had a chance to complete a circumnavigation, but it would have been possible:...
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1960. Technically speaking, this Soviet submerged circumnavigation was not a true "circumnavigation" inasmuch as the submarine detachment went from the...
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Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (category Circumnavigators of the globe)
participated in the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe, and subsequently became a leader of another circumnavigation expedition that discovered the...
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Robin Knox-Johnston (category Single-handed circumnavigating sailors)
1969, he became the first person to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe. Along with Sir Peter Blake, he won in 1994 the second...
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Laura Dekker (category Teenage single-handed circumnavigating sailors)
finally began on 21 August 2010. Dekker successfully completed the solo circumnavigation in a 12.4-metre (40 ft) two-masted ketch named Guppy, arriving in Simpson...
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Jennifer Murray (section Fastest circumnavigation)
days, earning her the Guinness World Record for the first helicopter circumnavigation by a woman. Jennifer Mather was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in...
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Group, equipped with 12 .50-caliber (12.7mm) machine guns. For its circumnavigation mission, a fuel tank was added in the bomb bay for extra range. The...
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complete a solo circumnavigation in the Spray, from 1895 to 1898, rounded Cape Horn from east to west. His was not the fastest circumnavigation on record,...
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the Pacific Oceans in a Spanish expedition, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the globe, completed by the Spaniard Juan Sebastián Elcano (1519–1522)...
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History of Russian exploration (redirect from Russian circumnavigations)
1966 Soviet submarine global circumnavigation Arctic policy of Russia Category:Russian explorers First Russian circumnavigation Geography of Russia Great...
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Tropic of Cancer (section Circumnavigation)
5}} where φ is the latitude of the Tropic of Cancer For an ordinary circumnavigation the rules are somewhat relaxed and the distance is set to a rounded...
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Operation Sandblast (category Circumnavigations)
2010. First Submerged Circumnavigation 1960, p. B-79. First Submerged Circumnavigation 1960, p. B-7. First Submerged Circumnavigation 1960, pp. B-7 to B-9...
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Martín Ignacio de Loyola (category Circumnavigators of the globe)
1580–1584 and 1585–1589, being the first person to complete the world circumnavigation twice in different directionsA, and for his missionary effort in China...
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