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The second and third orbital circumnavigations, the first two to have multiple orbits, were made by Gherman Titov (17.5 orbits, a little over a day, for the Soviet Union) and John Glenn, in Friendship 7 (3 orbits, almost five hours, for the US, first American orbital flight), respectively.
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).
[1] [2] [3] The expedition departed Spain in 1519 and returned there in 1522 led by Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano, who crossed the Indian Ocean after Magellan's death in the Philippines. [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]
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]
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.
Starting in 1875, dozens of circumnavigation ultrawalkers emerged, most of them frauds who fooled the public to win wagers and made a living giving lectures about their supposed "walks". Later, a few legitimate walkers succeeded. [3] The first legitimate ultrarunner to succeed is Konstantin Rengarten, and the most recent to succeed is Marie ...
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