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    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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    km, or 37,560 mi, the nearly three-year voyage achieved the first circumnavigation of Earth in history. It also marked the first crossing of the Pacific...
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    the circumnavigation route. Commemorations of the circumnavigation included: An exhibition titled "The Longest Journey: the first circumnavigation" was...
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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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    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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    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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  • compete against Chase and Doyle to be the first to circumnavigate the world. To count as a circumnavigation, each team must travel at least 22,859 mi (36,788 km)...
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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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    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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    Francis Drake (category Circumnavigators of the globe)
    an English explorer and privateer best known for making the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580 (being 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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    Pole-to-Pole circumnavigation during pandemic". cbs8.com. Retrieved January 6, 2021. "San Diego Pilot Completes 'Pole to Pole' Circumnavigation". Times of...
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    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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    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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  • for circumnavigating both Poles and the world. About five years before the mission, Hamish Harding discussed the idea of a global circumnavigation flight...
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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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    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 she circled the planet, she did it in a...
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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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    France around 1525 under the title "Le voyage et nauigation". The long circumnavigation began in Seville in 1519 and returned to Sanlúcar de Barrameda on 6...
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  • 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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    1877, Grant undertook a world tour, becoming the first president to circumnavigate the world. In 1880, he was unsuccessful in obtaining the Republican...
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    Ted Simon (born 1931) is a British travel writer noted for circumnavigating the world twice by motorcycle. He was raised in London by a German mother and...
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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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  • formerly beauty vlogs Edward Pratt United Kingdom Ed Pratt Best known for circumnavigating the globe on a unicycle. Q Anthony Quintal United States Lohanthony...
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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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  • Expedition 360 (category Circumnavigations)
    legitimate human-powered circumnavigation is Turkish-American adventurer Erden Eruç who completed the first solo circumnavigation between July 2007 and July...
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    Juan Sebastián Elcano (category Circumnavigators of the globe)
    Castile when he was born, best known for having completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth in the Spanish ship Victoria on the Magellan expedition...
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    the Harmon Trophy in 1936 and 1938 for the record-breaking global circumnavigation. In 1938 the William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas—known at the...
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    second half of July 1896, Twain sailed back to England, completing his circumnavigation of the world begun 14 months before.: 188  Twain and his family spent...
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