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Circumnavigations

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Magellan-Elcano expedition

16th-century Spanish maritime expedition

Great White Fleet

US Navy battleship fleet which circumnavigated the globe

Tûranor PlanetSolar

solar-powered boat

first voyage of James Cook

combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific

United States Exploring Expedition

exploring and surveying expedition, 1838 to 1842

second voyage of James Cook

exploration voyage from 1772 to 1775

First Russian Antarctic expedition

1819–1821 expedition to explore the Southern Ocean and Antarctica

Vega expedition

first Arctic expedition to navigate through the Northeast Passage

Loaysa Expedition

Early Spanish expedition to Southeast Asia

First aerial circumnavigation

1924 aviation feat by U.S. Army Air Service officers

George Anson's voyage around the world

circumnavigation by George Anson and eight other ships

First Russian circumnavigation

Operation Sea Orbit

circumnavigation of the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered TF1

Transglobe Expedition

expedition from south to north poles using only surface transport

Operation Sandblast

code name for the first submerged circumnavigation of the world

Francis Drake's circumnavigation

first English circumnavigation of the world