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Frank F. Borman II, James A. Lovell Jr., and William A. Anders, 21–27 December 1968, first human circumnavigation of the Earth-Moon system, 10 orbits around the moon in about 20 hours, aboard Apollo 8; total trip to the moon and back was more than 6 Earth days.
Expedition 360 was a successful attempt by Briton Jason Lewis to be the first person to circumnavigate the globe using only human power – no motors or sails. [1] [2] It was begun by Lewis and Stevie Smith in 1994 and ended at 12:24 pm [3] on 6 October 2007, when Lewis re-crossed the prime meridian at Greenwich, London, having travelled 74,842 km (46,505 mi).
Jason Lewis FRGS (born 13 September 1967) is an English author, [1] explorer and sustainability campaigner credited with being the first person to circumnavigate the globe by human power. [2] [3] He is also the first person to cross North America on inline skates (1996), and the first to cross the Pacific Ocean by pedal power (2000). Together ...
Jeanne Baret is the first woman to complete a voyage of circumnavigation, in 1766–1769. [33] [34] John Hunter commanded the first ship to circumnavigate the World starting from Australia, between 2 September 1788 and 8 May 1789, with one stop in Cape Town to load supplies for the colony of New South Wales. [35]
A circumnavigation of the Earth is a journey from a point around the globe, returning to the point of departure. In a pedestrian circumnavigation, travelers must move around the globe and return to their starting point by their own power, either walking or running.
Magellan expedition, with milestones marked Loaísa expedition. Maestre Anes (circa 1500; † 1542/45, also “Juan Alemán de Aquisgrán”, “Hans from Aachen”) was a member of the first circumnavigation under Ferdinand Magellan 1519–1522 and one of the 18 surviving returnees under Elcano.
Juan Sebastián Elcano [1] (Elkano in modern Basque; [2] sometimes given as del Cano; [3] [1] 1486/1487 [4] – 4 August 1526) was a Spanish navigator, ship-owner and explorer of Basque origin [n 1] from Getaria, part of the Crown of Castile when he was born, best known for having completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth in the Spanish ship Victoria on the Magellan expedition to the ...
Krusenstern family coat of arms. Adam Johann von [1] Krusenstern (Russian: Ива́н Фёдорович Крузенште́рн, romanized: Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern; 10 October 1770 – 12 August 1846) was a Russian admiral and explorer of Swedish and Baltic German descent, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth in 1803–1806.