Circumnavigation in a sentence

Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580, and was the first to complete the voyage as captain while leading the expedition throughout the entire circumnavigation.

The name that is used by us today goes back to explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who began the first circumnavigation of the Earth over 500 years ago.

The Spanish institution Real Academia Historia, reporting on the first circumnavigation in the April 2019 edition of magazine, noted only that Magellan died in Mactan, an island in the Philippines.

As a result of this journey, which formed a section of the three-year Transglobe Expedition 1979–1982, Fiennes and Burton became the first people to complete a circumnavigation of the world via both North and South Poles, by surface travel alone.

Captain James Cook visited the island in 1775 on the final leg of his second circumnavigation of the world.

Circumnavigation of the earth (1577–1580) A map of Drake's route around the world.

Completed the first circumnavigation of the globe in a single expedition after its captain, Magellan, was killed.

Cunnane cruised in the Northabout in Canada for two years before returning to Ireland in 2005 via the Northeast Passage ; he completed the first east-to-west circumnavigation of the pole by a single sailboat.

Drake presented the Queen with a jewel token commemorating the circumnavigation.

Ferdinand Magellan used 18 glasses on each ship for his circumnavigation of the globe (1522).

Flinders first sailed along the south coast to Sydney, then completed the circumnavigation of Australia back to Sydney.

Haynes 1987 pp. 88–94 He took much interest in the careers of John Hawkins and Francis Drake from early on, and was a principal backer of Drake's circumnavigation of the world.

He remarked as he saw it that he hoped one day an Englishman would be able to sail it—which he would do years later as part of his circumnavigation of the world.

In 1519, Ferdinand Magellan departed from Seville for the first circumnavigation of the Earth.

In 1522 one of the ships in the expedition that Ferdinand Magellan organized in the Spanish service completed the first circumnavigation of the globe.

In 1803–1806, the first Russian circumnavigation was made, later followed by other notable Russian sea exploration voyages.

In 1924, four Douglas-built planes took off from Clover Field to attempt the first aerial circumnavigation of the world.

Later, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan sailed the Pacific on a Castilian (Spanish) expedition of world circumnavigation starting in 1519.

Since the solo circumnavigation of Joshua Slocum in the 1890s, long-distance cruising under sail has inspired thousands of otherwise normal people to explore distant seas and horizons.

The first circumnavigation of the world was carried out in 1519–1521.