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A combination of boat, airplane, and trains [14] [15] John Henry Mears: 23 days 15 hours 21 minutes and 3 seconds 1928 1928 [16] Hugo Eckener: 21 days, 5 hours and 31 minutes 8 August 1929 29 August 1929 First circumnavigation in an airship, aboard LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin from Lakehurst, New Jersey [17] [18] Pilot Wiley Post and navigator Harold Gatty
This circumnavigation was completed on 26 July 2016. Michael Smith, November 2015, first solo circumnavigation in a single-engine flying boat [69] in Progressive Aerodyne SeaRey two-seater light sport aircraft [70] Fyodor Konyukhov, 23 July 2016, broke the record for the
Name Tom Denniss: Second runner credited with a proper documented world run under the World Runners Association rules. He holds the record for the fastest circumnavigation on foot and is the second person to be inducted into the WRA membership. [citation needed] Date Dec. 31, 2011 – Sept. 13, 2013 Duration 1 year, 8 months, 14 days Distance
The Jules Verne Trophy's starting point is defined by an imaginary line between the Créac'h lighthouse on Ouessant Island, France, and the Lizard Lighthouse, UK.The boats have to circumnavigate the world leaving the capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, and Horn to port and cross the starting line in the opposite direction.
IDEC 3, current outright record holder at 40 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds.. The first around the world sailing record for circumnavigation of the world can be attributed to the surviving crew of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, including the last captain Juan Sebastián Elcano who completed their journey in 1522.
Her time along the clipper route of 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes, and 33 seconds was the fastest ever circumnavigation of the world by a single-hander. [21] While this record still leaves MacArthur as the fastest female singlehanded circumnavigator, in 2008, Francis Joyon eclipsed the record in a trimaran with a time of 57 days, 13 hours, 34 ...
With a crew reduced to six people, IDEC Sport presents itself as a challenger to beat the Jules-Verne Trophy, [13] owned by Loïck Peyron since 2011 in 45 days, 13 hours, 42 minutes and 53 seconds. After an attempt in November 2016, with unfavorable weather in the doldrums and the South Atlantic, and a shock that slightly damaged her fin, Joyon ...
Fastest circumnavigation of the globe by human power—5 years, 11 days, 12 hours, and 22 minutes [54] First to row all three major oceans—Pacific, Indian and Atlantic [ 6 ] Greatest distance rowed solo on the ocean—23,473 nautical miles (43,472 km; 27,012 mi) [ 55 ] (total distance includes all segments of the solo circumnavigation and the ...