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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.
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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).
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]
[4] [3] Totaling 60,440 km, or 37,560 mi, [5] the nearly three-year voyage achieved the first circumnavigation of Earth in history. [2] It also revealed the vast scale of the Pacific Ocean and proved that ships could sail around the world from Europe, specifically to the Spice Islands, on a western sea route.
The first legitimate ultrarunner to succeed is Konstantin Rengarten, and the most recent to succeed is Marie Leautey. The following list shows people who have, or claim to have, completed a circumnavigation on foot, sorted by date of departure.
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 ...
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.