circumnavigation

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Each participant must complete four weeks of intense training before taking part in one or all eight stages of the circumnavigation.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2024

Cook's circumnavigation of Australia, yielding 766 runs in a 3-1 victory down under in 2010-11 is one of the greatest modern achievements by any England player.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2023

Will Harris is a British sailor competing for Team Malizia in The Ocean Race, which finishes this week in Genoa, Italy, after a 60,000km circumnavigation of the globe over the past six months.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2023

Harding was also on board the 2019 “One More Orbit” flight mission that set a record for the fastest circumnavigation of earth by aircraft over both geographic poles.

From Reuters • Jun. 20, 2023

The airship was three days from completing a sensational feat of aeronautics, circumnavigation of the globe.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand