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circumnavigation

[ UK /sˌɜːkəmnˌævɪɡˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. traveling around something (by ship or plane)
    Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth proved that it is a globe

How To Use circumnavigation In A Sentence

  • Circumnavigation of the globe changed the world from a flat map to a 3D sphere.
  • My sea kayak circumnavigation of Ireland stalled here for several weeks and I spent many evenings with a borrowed guitar banging out old tunes. • dickmacks.homestead.comDoolin is jumping off point for ferries out to the Aran Islands but it's long been known that there's as good or better traditional music here than on the mainland. Ireland: the 10 best pubs on the coast
  • Sunderland embarked Jan. 23 after older brother Zac completed a westerly solo circumnavigation at the age of 17. 16-year-old California teen gives up solo voyage
  • No doubt he will make a few new friends starting next summer on his 30-month circumnavigation of the Arctic Circle.
  • MSSecond instalment of Timothy Spall's barge-borne circumnavigation of Britain. TV highlights 17/08/2011
  • The Wonderland Trail, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: This 93-mile circumnavigation of the mountain traverses lowland forests and subalpine meadows.
  • The decisive event in Elizabethan western expansion was Drake's circumnavigation voyage of 1577-1580.
  • I rode through 60 countries on my circumnavigation, and in each country this held true. Alastair Humphreys: Adventure Will Change Your Life
  • Seaglegs amphibious RIB has completed a 1620 kilometer "circumnavigation" of the Malaysian Peninsula in a record time of Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
  • In between two circumnavigations of the globe he bought the best vineyards in the village and founded La Paulée de Meursault, the bacchanalian postharvest feast that survives to this day. A Place of Great Whites Confronts a Dark Mystery
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