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Nellie Bly traveled around the world with public steamboats and trains in 72 days (from 14 November 1889, to 25 January 1890), a world record, resembling the Around the World in Eighty Days novel. Clärenore Stinnes and Carl-Axel Söderström were the first persons to drive around the world in a car between 25 May 1927 and 24 June 1929.
At the time, he was considered the only person ever verified to have reached the age of 120, although subsequent research has cast doubt on his actual age. In April 1987, 14 months after Izumi's death, the Department of Epidemiology at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology reported that research into Izumi's family registration ...
21 years, 56 days Lapworth 24: Dove Allied Luders 33: Return of Dove [2] Westerly, via Panama Canal. [3] Solo, with stops and assistance. Tania Aebi US: New York City, New York, U.S. 28 May 1985 [4] 6 November 1987 [5] 892 21 years, 30 days Contessa 26: Varuna: Westerly, via Panama Canal. Solo, with stops and assistance.
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
The world's tallest man, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records, is Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was born in 1918 in Alton, Ill. Standing at a colossal 8'11.1″ (2.72 m) and weighing in at ...
Passengers looking to embark on a 3 ½-year around-the-world voyage on Villa Vie Residences' Odyssey cruise ship have been left hanging for the past three months.
In travel news this week: railway ambitions in Greece, Vietnam, Britain and the United States; exciting new maritime adventures from Virgin Voyages and the Orient Express; plus the world’s top ...
Michael Perham (born 16 March 1992 [2]) is an English sailor and adventurer from Potters Bar.In 2007 at the age of 14 he became the youngest person in the world to successfully sail across the Atlantic Ocean single-handedly, beating the record set in 2003 by British sailor Seb Clover.