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  • Thumbnail for Circumnavigation
    Circumnavigation is the complete navigation around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body (e.g. a planet or moon). This article focuses on the...
    36 KB (4,158 words) - 09:08, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of circumnavigations
    This is a list of circumnavigations of Earth. Sections are ordered by ascending date of completion. The 18 survivors, led by Juan Sebastián Elcano (Spanish)...
    94 KB (10,037 words) - 15:36, 12 September 2024
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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...
    89 KB (11,022 words) - 01:37, 9 September 2024
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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...
    17 KB (1,786 words) - 17:41, 26 July 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...
    17 KB (577 words) - 06:52, 15 August 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...
    32 KB (3,761 words) - 07:11, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Francis Drake's circumnavigation
    Francis Drake's circumnavigation, also known as Drake's Raiding Expedition, was an important historical maritime event that took place between 15 December...
    74 KB (9,652 words) - 11:36, 11 September 2024
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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...
    163 KB (22,825 words) - 03:19, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Cavendish's circumnavigation
    in the footsteps of Francis Drake who circumnavigated the globe, Thomas Cavendish was influenced in an attempt to repeat the feat. As such it was the first...
    41 KB (5,412 words) - 16:16, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ferdinand Magellan
    planned and led the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies, which achieved the first circumnavigation of Earth in history. During the expedition,...
    49 KB (5,670 words) - 21:34, 25 August 2024
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    Enrique of Malacca (category Circumnavigators of the globe)
    historians, it is possible that he could be the first person to circumnavigate the globe and return to his starting point, however, there is no record or source...
    20 KB (2,243 words) - 12:14, 12 August 2024
  • Connect Four–style row or column. Later seasons had the contestants circumnavigate the globe via air travel, play tag across western Europe, drive the...
    43 KB (4,702 words) - 12:51, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for First Indian circumnavigation
    The first Indian circumnavigation in a sail boat was undertaken in 1985-1987 by a team comprising officers of the Indian Army Corps of Engineers on yacht...
    21 KB (2,412 words) - 15:55, 3 July 2024
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    Matt Guthmiller (category Circumnavigators of the globe)
    later landed back at Gillespie on July 14, 2014, to become the youngest person to ever circumnavigate the globe by aircraft at 19 years, 7 months, and...
    12 KB (964 words) - 12:28, 18 August 2024
  • Lisa Blair (category Single-handed circumnavigating sailors)
    project. She has written a book, Facing Fear, about her first attempt at circumnavigating Antarctica solo on her yacht Climate Action Now. Blair was 25 years...
    16 KB (1,542 words) - 20:26, 8 September 2024
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    carrack famed as the first ship to successfully circumnavigate the world. Victoria was part of the Spanish expedition to the Moluccas (now Indonesia's Maluku...
    21 KB (1,859 words) - 01:23, 8 September 2024
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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...
    58 KB (5,178 words) - 23:16, 5 September 2024
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    Solar Impulse (category Circumnavigation)
    Orbiter 3, the first balloon to circle the world non-stop. The Solar Impulse project's goals were to make the first circumnavigation of the Earth by a piloted...
    69 KB (5,502 words) - 15:55, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert McClure
    traversed the Northwest Passage by boat and sledge, and was the first to circumnavigate the Americas. McClure was born in Wexford in the south-east of Ireland...
    9 KB (890 words) - 08:30, 17 April 2024
  • the fastest circumnavigation, made by a person or team, excluding orbits of Earth from spacecraft. Oceans portal List of circumnavigations Townsend, George...
    17 KB (768 words) - 23:02, 17 August 2024
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