The Fairey Fremantle was a large single-engine biplane seaplane designed in the mid-1920s for a proposed round-the-World flight.
Teddy Seymour is the first black man to sail around the world solo.
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As HMS Investigator was commencing its anticlockwise circumnavigation, a French expedition under Nicolas Baudin was exploring the coastline in a clockwise direction.
Adrian Flanagan (born October 1, 1960 in Nairobi, Kenya) is a British author and sailor who, on May 21, 2008, achieved the first ever single-handed vertical circumnavigation (via the geographical poles) of the globe.
A 36 year old Albin Vega sailboat, christened the St. Brendan in honor of the 6th-century Irish explorer monk, was used by Matt Rutherford of Annapolis, Maryland in his successful 314 day, 27,077 mile solo circumnavigation of North and South America which was officially completed on April 18, 2012, when Rutherford crossed the start and finish line -- the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel outside of Norfolk, Virginia .
William Ambrosia Cowley was a 17th-century English buccaneer who surveyed the Galápagos Islands during his circumnavigation of the world, and published the first chart of the islands in 1684.
Her stepson, Julian Mustoe, is currently engaged in a circumnavigation of the globe following the route of the HMS Beagle.
On 14 February 2008, Mark Beaumont completed a circumnavigation of the globe by bicycle in 194 days and 17 hours.
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Geoff Thomas asked Cox to raise money and awareness for his charitable foundation linked to Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research during his circumnavigation.
On 30 September 1928, pilot Gustavo León and Subteniente and mechanic Ricardo González set out on an aerial circumnavigation of Mexico in an O-E-1.
The naval officer Samuel Wallis was born near Camelford (among his achievements was the circumnavigation of the world).
Matthew Flinders aboard the Investigator charted the area in 1802 as part of his circumnavigation of Australia.
Also in 2005, Ellen MacArthur set a new world record for a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation in the trimaran B&Q/Castorama.
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In March 2005, Bruno Peyron and crew on the catamaran Orange II set a new world record for a circumnavigation by the clipper route, of 50 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes and 4 seconds.
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Possibly the strangest yacht race ever run, it culminated in a successful non-stop circumnavigation by just one competitor, Robin Knox-Johnston, who became the first person to sail the clipper route single-handed and non-stop.
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The first person to attempt a high-speed circumnavigation of the clipper route was Francis Chichester.
Calcutta then sailed alone to Port Jackson to take on a cargo of 800 tons of timber before sailing back to England via Cape Horn and Rio de Janeiro, arriving back at Spithead on 23 July 1804, completing a circumnavigation in ten months and three days.
In 1980, Springbett set a world record for a circumnavigation of the world as a passenger on scheduled airline flights by completing the trip in 44 hours and six minutes with the help of supersonic travel on the Concorde.
In summer 1995, British television actor and documentary presenter Michael Palin started his counterclockwise circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim, encompassing 18 different countries, on Little Diomede Island, as part of the BBC series Full Circle.
It is named after Juan Sebastián Elcano, the Spanish Basque explorer who completed the first circumnavigation of the world.
The docks to both the Mark Twain Riverboat and the Sailing Ship Columbia, (a replica of American explorer Robert Gray's 18th century ship that circumnavigated the globe) are located here, and Tom Sawyer Island in the river's center is also considered a property of Frontierland
George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697–1762), British admiral, noted for his circumnavigation of the globe
During Viking times, Hollingstedt served as a transhipment port for a ten mile portage to Hedeby on the Schlei inlet of the Baltic, cutting short a long and perilous circumnavigation of the Jutland Peninsula.
Freya Hoffmeister (1964) Sea Kayaker, fastest-ever circumnavigation of Iceland, currently circumnavigating South America
The team ultimately broke the powered world record, previously held by the nuclear submarine USS Triton, by completing the circumnavigation in 74 days, 20 hours and 58 minutes.
After retiring to raise two children, she returned after five years to swim across Lake Erie in Canada, and two firsts: the first double crossing of Cook Strait by a woman and a circumnavigation of Rarotonga.
In 2002 He completed a two-year 3 month solo circumnavigation of the Arctic Circle and in 2006 along with Norwegian explorer Børge Ousland, became the first men to travel without dog or motorized transport to the North Pole during permanent darkness.
Misaki was also the arrival point of the record solo circumnavigation of 71 year-old Minoru Saito, on June 6, 2005.
Each year, she does one circumnavigation of Australia offering exclusive, luxury expeditions in Papua New Guinea, Cape York, Great Barrier Reef, Sydney, South Australia and, from 2010, Solomon Islands.
In 1988, Kay Cottee of Australia became the first woman to complete a non-stop single-handed circumnavigation, on Blackmore's First Lady.
In September 2010, two yachts completed circumnavigation of the Arctic: Børge Ousland's team aboard The Northern Passage, and Sergei Murzayev's team in the Peter I.
Brown had been botanist during Matthew Flinders' circumnavigation of Australia, and since returning in England in 1805 he had been preparing descriptions of the specimens collected during the voyage.
Queen Elizabeth I knighted Francis Drake on board the Golden Hind in Deptford Creek on Drake's return from his circumnavigation of the globe in 1580.
Count Nikolay Rumyantsev funded Russia's first naval circumnavigation under the joint command of Adam Johann von Krusenstern and Nikolai Rezanov in 1803–1806, and was instrumental in the outfitting of the voyage of the Riurik's circumnavigation of 1814–1816, which provided substantial scientific information on Alaska's and California's flora and fauna, and important ethnographic information on Alaskan and Californian (among others) natives.
In 1989, Salahuddin Choudhudy, from Calcutta, circumnavigated the world aboard a Hindustan Contessa classic automobile for a distance of 24,900 road miles in 39 days, 20 hours, and 15 minutes, earning him the current Guinness World Record for first and fastest circumnavigation by car.
In 2010, Fundaciónn Eduardo Domínguez Lobato and Círculo de Artesanos, in collaboration with the City Council and the promoters of the idea, grant the first Circumnavigation to Culture and History Awards, being first winners the cities of Sabrosa (birthplace of Ferdinand Magellan in Portugal), Getaria (birthplace of Juan Sebastián Elcano) and Sanlúcar de Barrameda itself (start and end of the expedition trip).
Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European discovey of eastern Australia, Hawaii and undertook the first circumnavigation of New Zealand.
(The name refers to HMS Investigator, in which Matthew Flinders completed the first circumnavigation of Australia, 1801-1803, and mapped much of the coast for the first time.
The better-known was a female which was sketched by Georg Forster at Tanna during the second circumnavigation by James Cook to the South Sea in August 1774.
While shooting a Virgin advertisement for Olver’s company Pendragon Productions, Hicks and Olver pitches the idea of a circumnavigation to Richard Branson, who sponsored Hicks’s transatlantic row previously.
YCA's history stretches back to 1978, when HRH the Prince of Wales launched a 2-year, round-the-world youth expedition to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the globe.