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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.
The first maritime circumnavigations of the globe were:
Ferdinand Magellan
(
Portuguese
, but sailing for
Spain
),
1519
-
1522
- died during his circumnavigation, it was completed under command of
Sebastian del Cano
Francis Drake
(
English
),
1577
-
1580
Thomas Cavendish
(
English
),
1586
-
1588
Olivier van Noort (
Dutch
),
1598
-
1601
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