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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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    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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  • 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 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Cruise 2001  2002 Circumnavigation Cruise  Rouen Cruise 2003  Sail Rhode Island 2004  2005 North Pacific Training Cruise  Circumnavigation Cruise 2006  Baltic...
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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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    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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    Sadun Boro (category Circumnavigators of the globe)
    hero. Becoming the first ever Turkish global circumnavigator, he paved the way for global circumnavigation of Turkish sailors. The memories about his voyage...
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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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    1960. Technically speaking, this Soviet submerged circumnavigation was not a true "circumnavigation" inasmuch as the submarine detachment went from the...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    White planned a nonstop solo circumnavigation for charity. In 2015 he prepared for his charity solo circumnavigation of the world by entering his yacht...
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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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  • led a team of aviators that took the Guinness World Record for a circumnavigation of the Earth via the North and South Poles in a Gulfstream G650ER in...
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    they plan to circumnavigate Scotland or Ireland in 2022. The Expedition, Dark Waters: True Story of the First Human-Powered Circumnavigation of the Earth...
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    first submerged circumnavigation of the world. During her shakedown cruise, Triton successfully executed the first submerged circumnavigation of the world...
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