Circumnavigation

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Jason Lewis of Expedition 360 pedalling his boat Moksha on the River Thames in London,
shortly before completing the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth (2007)

In 2012, the Swiss boat PlanetSolar became the first ever solar electric vehicle to
circumnavigate the globe.
Circumnavigation is the complete navigation around an entire island, continent, or
astronomical body (e.g. a planet or moon). This article focuses on the circumnavigation
of Earth.
The first recorded circumnavigation of the Earth was the Magellan-Elcano expedition,
which sailed from Seville, Spain in 1519 and returned in 1522, after crossing the
Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. Since the rise of commercial aviation in the late
20th century, circumnavigating Earth is straightforward, usually taking days instead of
years.[1] Today, the challenge of circumnavigating Earth has shifted towards human and
technological endurance, speed, and less conventional methods.