🌍 Cowley's Circumnavigation 1699

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Pour celles et ceux qui aiment les défis à la voile, celui de Guirec Soudée autour du monde en solitaire sur un Ultim en "sens inverse", dont le record est jusqu'alors détenu par Jean Luc Van Den Heede en monocoque depuis 21 ans, en 122 jours et 14 heures.

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The first circumnavigation of the Earth by anyone ever (at least since records began) was the Magellan Expedition which took place between 1519 and 1522 in the ship Victoria.

Ten significant circumnavigations.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/09/28-september-circumnavigating-globe.html

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#OnThisDay Sir Francis Drake finished his #Circumnavigation of the #Earth (1580).

Albert Einstein published his first paper on the special theory of #Relativity (1905)

Anniversary of the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident (1983).

Happy Birthday #Tennis #Legend Serena Williams (1981).

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Antonio Pigafetta (c. 1491-c. 1535), the Italian chronicler of the first circumnavigation of the world by Fernão de Magalhães, was the first to relate how they had 'lost' an entire day during the voyage #circumnavigation

https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl_discovery.htm#top

#TIL about Jason Lewis, the first person to circumnavigate the globe by "human power".

He started his 4,833-day journey on July 12, 1994 and completed it on on October 6, 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Lewis_(adventurer)#Expedition_360

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#QuizOfTheDay: #Circumnavigation is the complete navigation around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body (e.g. a planet or moon).

Who is usually credited to be the first explorer to circumnavigate the Earth?

A. Ferdinand Magellan
B. Sir Francis Drake
C. García Jofre de Loaísa
D. Christopher Columbus

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