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He was the first person to circumnavigate the coast of Africa by bicycle, a distance of 37,000 km, through 34 countries over two years and two months. In July 2009 he became the first person to kayak 5,000 km around Madagascar , alone and unaided.
Due to a lack of money, he had to interrupt his voyage for work in South Africa as Master of a coaster and stevedoring and was only able to complete it in 1967. In 1968, he was one of nine sailors who attempted to achieve the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. He was the third sailor to ...
Donald "Rode" Rodewald, 1984, first circumnavigation by a paraplegic pilot in a Comanche 260 with hand controls. [48] [49] Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, 1986, Voyager, first non-stop non-refueled circumnavigation in an airplane, 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds. Dick Smith, 1988–1989, first circumnavigation landing at both poles, in a Twin Otter.
By the end of his circumnavigation, Eruç had set several ocean rowing world records including the first person to row three oceans, [6] the first rower to cross the Indian Ocean from Australia to mainland Africa (in two segments), [7] the longest distance rowed across the Indian Ocean, [8] and the longest distance rowed across the Atlantic ...
Donald Crowhurst had faked his round-the-world trip, sailing only in the Atlantic and radioing false position reports. Tetley was awarded a £1,000 consolation prize by the race organizers. By now he was obsessed with properly completing a circumnavigation, so he used the money to immediately build a new trimaran, which he called the Miss Vicky ...
He originally planned to circumnavigate via the Panama and Suez canals; in 1987, Teddy Seymour became the first African American to circumnavigate solo via that route. [10] Pinkney was persuaded by Robin Knox-Johnston , who in 1969 had become the first man to complete a solo nonstop circumnavigation, to travel the southern capes instead and to ...
The Spanish frigate Numancia, commanded by Juan Bautista Antequera y Bobadilla, completed the first circumnavigation by an ironclad in 1865–1867. Joshua Slocum completed the first single-handed circumnavigation in 1895–1898. In 1942, Vito Dumas became the first person to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe along the Roaring Forties.
Harry Clifford Pidgeon (August 31, 1869 – November 4, 1954) was an American sailor, a noted photographer, and was the second person to sail single-handedly around the world (1921-1925), 23 years after Joshua Slocum.