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circumnavigation (dict)
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CircumnavigationTo 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. First maritime circumnavigations Other maritime circumnavigations - Pharaoh Necho II, first circumnavigation of Africa
- Robert Gray, 1787-1790, first American circumnavigation
- Adam Johann von Krusenstern, 1803-1806 first Russian circumnavigation
- Robert Fitzroy, 1831-1836, circumnavigation with Charles Darwin resulting in latter's evolution writings
- 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, 1921-1925 1932-1937, second solo circumnavigation of the world, first person 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
- Naomi James, 1978, first woman to perform a single-handed (i.e. solo) circumnavigation of the world
- Kay Cottee, 1988, first woman to perform a solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world
Record maritime circumnavigations Notable aerial circumnavigations - United States Army Air Service, 1924, first aerial circumnavigation, 175 days, covering 44,360 kilometres (27,553 miles)
- LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin, 1929, first circumnavigation in an airship by Hugo Eckener, 21 days
- Wiley Post, 1933, first solo aerial circumnavigation, 7 days, 19 hours, 49 minutes covering 25,110 kilometres (15,596 miles)
- United States Air Force, 1949, first non-stop aerial circumnavigation, 4 in-air refuelings, 94 hours, 1 minute, covering 37,743 km (23,452 miles) in the B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II
- Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1 was the first human spaceflight and orbited the Earth in 1961
- Geraldine Mock, 1964, first woman solo aerial circumnavigation
- Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, 1986, Voyager, first non-refueled circumnavigation in an airplane, 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds
- Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, 1999, first non-stop balloon circumnavigation in Breitling Orbiter 3, 19 days, 1 hour and 49 minutes, covering 42,810 kilometres
- Steve Fossett, 2 July 2002, first solo balloon circumnavigation
- Steve Fossett, 3 March, 2005, first non-stop, non-refueled solo circumnavigation in an airplane, 67 hours, covering 37,000 kilometres
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