He began his circumnavigation of the world in a sailing boat.
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Circumnavigation
Synonyms for "circumnavigation" (26 found)
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Related words (13)
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17 translations across 14 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- околосветско плаване noun (circumnavigating)
Catalan
1 entries- circumnavegació noun (circumnavigating)
Esperanto
1 entries- ĉirkaŭnavigado noun (circumnavigating)
Finnish
1 entries- ympäripurjehdus noun (circumnavigating)
French
1 entries- circumnavigation noun (circumnavigating)
Greek
1 entries- περίπλους noun (circumnavigating)
Italian
1 entries- circumnavigazione noun (circumnavigating)
Japanese
1 entries- 世界一周 noun (circumnavigating)
Korean
1 entries- 세계일주 noun (circumnavigating)
Portuguese
1 entries- circum-navegação noun (circumnavigating)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- iom-sheòladh noun (circumnavigating)
Spanish
4 entries- boj noun (circumnavigating)
- bojeo noun (circumnavigating)
- circumnavegación noun (circumnavigating)
- circunnavegación noun (circumnavigating)
Swedish
1 entries- kringsegling noun (circumnavigating)
Tagalog
1 entries- tikuplayag noun (circumnavigating)
Sample sentences
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The SolarStratos team follows the pioneering work of Switzerland's Solar Impulse mission, which completed the first circumnavigation of the globe with a solar-powered plane in 2016.
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Under our new World may alſo be compriſed thoſe vaſt Southern Coaſts and Streights of Magelan, firſt lighted on by Ferdinandus Magelanus in the year 1520, in his Circumnavigation of the Univerſe ; which forty five years after Sir Francis Drake, and next Sir Thomas Bendiſh, Engliſhmen, made a furhter inſpection into ; and in the Year 1600 Oliver van Noord a Hollander paſt, but of later years a Spaniard, Fedinand de Quier, out-ſhot them all by a more ample Diſcovery then all the former.
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