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Circumnavigation   Listen
Circumnavigation

noun
1.
Traveling around something (by ship or plane).





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"Circumnavigation" Quotes from Famous Books



... through Davis's Straits, so called from their discoverer, John Davis, who sailed through them in 1585; and following the coast on the north side, we shall pass South-east Bay and Coburg Bay. In 1818 Captain Ross completed the circumnavigation of this oblong bay. The middle of it seems everywhere occupied with impenetrable ice, between which and the land is the only passage ...
— The World of Waters - A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea • Mrs. David Osborne
... out an exploring expedition for the circumnavigation of Africa, in hope of finding a possible passage for his fleets from the Red Sea to the Nile by a water channel already opened by nature, and to which the priests and oracles could interpose no objections. The expedition, we have reason to believe, actually accomplished the feat of ...
— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers


Words linked to "Circumnavigation" :   aeroplane, plane, travel, travelling, traveling, circumnavigate, airplane


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