• Thumbnail for Circumnavigation
    a planet or moon). This article focuses on the circumnavigation of Earth. The first circumnavigation of the Earth was the Magellan Expedition, which...
    36 KB (4,106 words) - 20:58, 7 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of circumnavigations
    Peruvian circumnavigation. SMS Novara; 1857–1859; first Austrian circumnavigation. Shenandoah; 1864–65; only Confederate ship to circumnavigate. Captain...
    92 KB (9,767 words) - 09:45, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Magellan expedition
    Magellan's death in the Philippines, thus culminating in the first circumnavigation of the world. The expedition accomplished its primary goal – to find...
    84 KB (10,647 words) - 03:16, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ferdinand Magellan
    Ferdinand Magellan (category Circumnavigators of the globe)
    the circumnavigation route. Commemorations of the circumnavigation include: An exhibition titled "The Longest Journey: the first circumnavigation" was...
    48 KB (5,637 words) - 06:48, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Timeline of the Magellan expedition
    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...
    16 KB (1,786 words) - 15:33, 20 February 2024
  • 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...
    16 KB (561 words) - 19:02, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for World Runners Association
    consistent set of rules for athletes attempting to complete a pedestrian circumnavigation, as well as to ratify and record attempts completed as per these rules...
    12 KB (742 words) - 01:42, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jessica Watson
    Jessica Watson (category Single-handed circumnavigating sailors)
    Days, was made about her circumnavigation. It was narrated by Sir Richard Branson. A movie, True Spirit, about her circumnavigation was produced in Queensland...
    58 KB (5,177 words) - 22:58, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Francis Drake
    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 third circumnavigation overall...
    100 KB (11,476 words) - 18:09, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Francis Drake's circumnavigation
    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...
    74 KB (9,645 words) - 17:07, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for First aerial circumnavigation
    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...
    31 KB (3,726 words) - 03:24, 14 April 2024
  • the fastest circumnavigation, made by a person or team, excluding orbits of Earth from spacecraft. Oceans portal List of circumnavigations Townsend, George...
    16 KB (745 words) - 03:52, 9 April 2024
  • 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...
    58 KB (5,523 words) - 14:41, 10 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer
    FAI’s definition of circumnavigation, the length of the Tropic of Cancer. The GlobalFlyer was designed to complete the circumnavigation with minimal reserves...
    14 KB (1,523 words) - 13:30, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2021 Quincentennial Commemorations in the Philippines
    Philippine part in the first circumnavigation of the world – Commemorates the stopover of the Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation in the Philippines. The NQC...
    19 KB (1,578 words) - 10:01, 6 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for HMS Dolphin (1751)
    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...
    9 KB (965 words) - 18:23, 21 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Laura Dekker
    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...
    42 KB (4,321 words) - 15:31, 7 March 2024
  • against Chase and Doyle to be the first to circumnavigate the world. In order to count as a circumnavigation, each team must travel at least 22,859 mi...
    36 KB (4,037 words) - 14:23, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Enrique of Malacca
    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:...
    20 KB (2,238 words) - 20:03, 29 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
    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...
    20 KB (1,877 words) - 16:40, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tropic of Cancer
    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...
    15 KB (1,173 words) - 04:51, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Operation Sandblast
    Operation Sandblast (category Circumnavigations)
    56–57. First Submerged Circumnavigation 1960, p. B-79. First Submerged Circumnavigation 1960, p. B-7. First Submerged Circumnavigation 1960, pp. B-7 to B-9...
    126 KB (14,035 words) - 12:34, 28 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1966 Soviet submarine global circumnavigation
    1960. Technically speaking, this Soviet submerged circumnavigation was not a true "circumnavigation" inasmuch as the submarine detachment went from the...
    24 KB (2,221 words) - 14:54, 10 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lucky Lady II
    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...
    9 KB (1,030 words) - 21:51, 2 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robin Knox-Johnston
    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 the second Jules Verne...
    14 KB (1,618 words) - 05:34, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Timeline of Francis Drake's circumnavigation
    Drake began a circumnavigation which would last for 1046 days. Before this journey, only a single expedition had completed a circumnavigation, one pioneered...
    75 KB (1,416 words) - 17:36, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clipper route
    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,...
    14 KB (1,861 words) - 12:34, 14 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for First Russian circumnavigation
    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...
    163 KB (22,754 words) - 01:01, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Europe
    the Pacific Oceans in a Spanish expedition, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the globe, completed by the Spaniard Juan Sebastián Elcano (1519–1522)...
    239 KB (21,875 words) - 03:45, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Magellan's Cross Pavilion
    that was planted by explorers of the Spanish expedition of the first circumnavigation of the world, led by Ferdinand Magellan, upon arriving in Cebu in the...
    9 KB (550 words) - 10:14, 19 April 2024