Wednesday, 2 March 2011 7 notable circumnavigations of the earth

  1. Juan Sebastián Elcano - 1522 (First complete circumnavigation)
  2. Martín Ignacio de Loyola - 1584/89 (First to circumnavigate in both directions)
  3. Jeanne Baré - 1766 (First female to circumnavigate)
  4. Joshua Slocum - 1898 (First single-handed circumnavigation)
  5. USS Triton - 1960 (First underwater circumnavigation)
  6. Marvin Creamer - 1984 (First circumnaviation without nautical aids)
  7. Reid Stowe - 2010 (Eastbound curcumnaviation, Longest time spent at sea without resupply or touching land)

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