Mastodawn

South Australian sailor claims second place in historic Mini Globe Race

#Sailing #Adventure #Circumnavigation #AusNews #AUArtsHealth

https://thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-10-south-australian-sailor-claims-second-place-in-historic-mini-globe-race-873bdcad

South Australian sailor claims second place in historic Mini Globe Race

Adelaide sailor Dan Turner completes inaugural Mini Globe Race in second place after 16 months sailing his homemade plywood yacht around the world.

The Daily Perspective

✨ Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋Jan 29

🌍 Cowley's Circumnavigation 1699

#History #Histodons #Circumnavigation #Maritime #Map #Cartography

#Image attribution: Hermann Moll, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cowley%27s_Circumnavigation_1699.jpg

མ་ནུས།Jan 25

https://voile-macsf.fr/l-actualite/cartographie-guirec-soudee-s-elance-pour-son-tour-du-monde-a-l-envers-a-bord-de-l-ultim-macsf

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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#voile #sailing #circumnavigation #globe #trimaran #ultim

Valdeloire Dec 13

Старт навколосвітньої експедиції Дрейка
https://buymeacoffee.com/valdeloir/razetaribu

#ФренсісДрейк #НавколосвітняПодорож #ЕпохаВеликихГеографічнихВідкриттів #МорськаІсторія #НоваАльбіон
#FrancisDrake #Circumnavigation #AgeOfExploration #MaritimeHistory #NovaAlbion

Julie Howlin Sep 28

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

#Circumnavigation #exploration #Travel

28 September: Circumnavigating the globe

On this date in 1924 the first circumnavigation of the Earth by air was completed. Here are 10 notable circumnavigations of the planet: ...

Topical Tens

Knowledge Zone Sep 26

#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).

https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

World History Encyclopedia Sep 18

The Graf Zeppelin was the most successful of all Zeppelin airships, making several hundred trips across the Atlantic between Europe and the Americas. #History #AirTravel #Circumnavigation #Germany #GrafZeppelin #HugoEckener #Zeppelin #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2804-en/

Graf Zeppelin's Round the World Trip of 1929

The Graf Zeppelin was the most successful of all Zeppelin airships, making several hundred trips across the Atlantic between Europe and the Americas. In 1929, a new age of air travel dawned when the...

World History Encyclopedia

IEEE Spectrum Jun 3, 2025

Bertrand Piccard, avid explorer and climate change advocate, plans to make a full trip around the Earth in a #greenHydrogen fuel-cell aircraft. Planned for 2028, this trip would be the first nonstop #zero-emission #circumnavigation in human history. spectrum.ieee.org/hydrogen-fue...

How Bertrand Piccard's Hydroge...

Bertrand Piccard’s Big Hydrogen Adventure

<p>He'll fly around the world in a hydrogen fuel-cell aircraft</p>

IEEE Spectrum

Rafagas Links Oct 17, 2024

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