Circumnavigation

To circumnavigate a place, such as an island, a continent, or the Earth, is to travel all the way around it by boat or ship. More recently, the term has also been used to cover aerial round-the-world flights. see also modern circumnavigation

Other notable maritime circumnavigations

• Phoenician expedition sent by Pharaoh Necho II, c. 600 BC, first circumnavigation of Africa.
• Roman Governor Gnaeus Julius Agricola, c. 80, first circumnavigation of Britain.
• Jacques Cartier, 1534–1535 first circumnavigation of Newfoundland.
• James Cook, 1769–1770 first circumnavigation of New Zealand.
• Matthew Flinders, 1801–1803 first circumnavigation of Australia.
• {{warship|HMCS|Labrador|AW 50}}, 1954, first circumnavigation of North America