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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 revealed the vast scale of the Pacific...
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    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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  • 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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    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 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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 Russian circumnavigation of the Earth took place between August 1803 and August 1806 and was carried out on two ships, the Nadezhda and the Neva...
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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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    Alec Rose (category Single-handed circumnavigating sailors)
    refitted her in time to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rose's circumnavigation., since she has been awarded to Around and Around. The lively Lady...
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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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    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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    Philippine part in the first circumnavigation of the world – Commemorates the stopover of the Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation in the Philippines. The NQC...
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    Thomas Cavendish (category Circumnavigators of the globe)
    Cavendish in circumnavigating the globe. His first trip and successful circumnavigation made him rich from captured Spanish gold, silk and treasure from the...
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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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    1960. Technically speaking, this Soviet submerged circumnavigation was not a true "circumnavigation" inasmuch as the submarine detachment went from the...
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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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    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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    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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    Drake began a circumnavigation which would last for 1046 days. Before this journey, only a single expedition had completed a circumnavigation, one pioneered...
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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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    Great capes (category Circumnavigation)
    circumnavigation via the great capes is considered a noteworthy achievement. Joshua Slocum followed the route during the first solo circumnavigation of...
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