circumnavigator

He has a claim to being the first French circumnavigator.

Elcano is often credited with being the first circumnavigator.

After the journey she continued a relationship with Michael Perham, the previous youngest circumnavigator.

Olivier van Noort followed and became the first Dutch circumnavigator.

He was the youngest solo circumnavigator, finishing at the age of 20, making him the first person under age 21 to circumnavigate.

The book pointed out that, in the end, Aebi unintentionally compromised her status as a lone circumnavigator.

Jason Lewis is an author and self-powered English circumnavigator credited with being the first person to circumnavigate the globe by human power.

The name of the town was chosen in honor of the first circumnavigator of the world, Ferdinand Magellan.

He joined the navy as a teenager, following his Cornish hero, the circumnavigator Samuel Wallis into service.

Tetley persisted long enough to become the first circumnavigator in a multihull, before his battered Victress sank just 1,000 miles from England.

Olivier van Noort, Dutch circumnavigator (died 1627)

In memory of the celebrated circumnavigator Captain James Cook F.R.S.

March - William Dampier, English explorer, hydrographic surveyor and triple circumnavigator (born 1651)

Macquarie formally adopted the name Australia for the continent, the name earlier proposed by the first circumnavigator of Australia, Matthew Flinders.

Fittingly, Geronimo's captain - the five-time circumnavigator and the former French radio personality Olivier de Kersauson - has a bit of cowboy in him.

Captain Cook's Monument was built in 1827 in memory of the circumnavigator Captain James Cook, with the monuments purpose to spread civilisation and Christian faith.

Bernard was possibly also a distant kinsman of Sir Francis Drake, the circumnavigator; the existence of such a kinship was a controversy even during their lifetimes.

As all the class were named after famous Elizabethan seafarers, this fifth ship was named Cavendish after the adventurer and circumnavigator Thomas Cavendish.

Captain James Cook named Cape Byron after John Byron, circumnavigator of the world and grandfather of the poet, Lord Byron.

Rollo Gebhard (b. Rollo Gebhard July 7, 1921 in Salzburg, Austria) is a German multiple single hand maritime circumnavigator and author of books.

In writing about her father's life and attitudes and their impact on her own, she says, she "had to find a way back, not directly but as a circumnavigator ends up back by having persevered forward.

The museum first opened its doors in the setting of the town's Stewart Park in 1978, the 250th anniversary of the birth in the same spot of British naval explorer and circumnavigator Captain James Cook.

While this record still leaves MacArthur as the fastest female singlehanded circumnavigator, in 2008 Francis Joyon eclipsed that record in the trimaran IDEC with a time of 57 days, 13 hours, 34 minutes 6 seconds.

According to ABC News, competing circumnavigator Abby Sunderland congratulated Jessica on rounding Cape Horn, "She's done an amazing job and I hope the rest of her trip goes as well as it has so far."

In its citation, the Swedish Academy praised Mr. Naipaul for using that quality to his advantage: "V. S. Naipaul is a literary circumnavigator, only ever really at home in himself, in his inimitable voice."