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

Record maritime circumnavigations

• Bruno Peyron (French), January?March 2005, fastest circumnavigation 50 days 16 hours 20 minutes 4 seconds.
• Jean Luc van de Heede (French), 2004, fastest westward single-handed circumnavigation, 122 days 14 hours 3 minutes 49 seconds.
• Ellen MacArthur (English), 2004?2005, fastest single-handed 71 days 14 hours 18 minutes 33 seconds.