circumnavigation

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Circumnavigation is the only voyage that is both at the same time.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2016

Circumnavigation of the moon by an unmanned space ship. 1965-67.

From Time Magazine Archive

George McNeil's Circumnavigation was part of a one-man show at the Egan Gallery.

From Time Magazine Archive

An Account of the Circumnavigation of the Island, and various Incidents that happened during the Expedition; with a Description of a Burying-place and Place of Worship, called, a Morai.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

There is now also in preparation a minute narrative of The Circumnavigation of the Globe, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William