Circumnavigation
To circumnavigate a place, such as an island, a continent, or the Earth is to travel all the way around it by boat or ship. More recently, the term has also been used to cover aerial round-the-world flights.
The first maritime circumnavigations of the globe were:
Some other circumnavigations:
- pharaoh Necho II, first circumnavigation of Africa
- Robert Gray, 1787-1790 first American circumnavigation
- Adam Johann von Krusenstern, 1803-1806 first Russian circumnavigation
- Joshua Slocum 1895 - 1898 first solo circumnavigation of the world
- USS Nautilus first underwater circumnavigation of the world
- Matthew Flinders first circumnavigation of Australia
- James Cook first circumnavigation of New Zealand
- Harry Pidgeon, 1869 - 1954, second solo circumnavigation of the world, first man to circumnavigate solo twice
- Sir Francis Chichester (English), 1966-1967, first single-handed circumnavigation of the world with just one port of call
- Robin Knox-Johnston (English), 1968-1969, first single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world
- Chay Blyth (Scottish), 1971, first westwards single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world
Notable aerial round the world trips
