Crossword clues for circumnavigation
circumnavigation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Circumnavigation \Cir`cum*nav`i*ga"tion\, n.
The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.
--Arbuthnot.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1705, from circumnavigate + -ion.
Wiktionary
n. The act of circumnavigate, or sailing round.
WordNet
n. traveling around something (by ship or plane); "Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth proved that it is a globe"
Wikipedia
Circumnavigation means to travel all the way around the entire planet, or an island, or continent. This article is concerned with circumnavigation of the Earth. The first known circumnavigation of Earth was the Magellan-Elcano expedition, which sailed from Spain in 1519 and returned in 1522 after crossing the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.
Usage examples of "circumnavigation".
He spoke a moment with Spelt, and the major barked an order that brought soldiers forward, urging the exiles to a circumnavigation of the pen.
By an ingenious device he sets before the rescuers a search which compels their circumnavigation of the globe around a certain parallel of the southern hemisphere.
DUNCAN immediately to Glasgow, and to make preparations for a voyage to the Southern Seas, and possibly round the world, for Lady Helena was right in her opinion that the yacht might safely attempt the circumnavigation of the globe, if necessary.
The only result of this voyage of circumnavigation was to strike out the name of Isle Tristan from the program of search.
A telegram was dispatched to John Mangles the very same day, conveying Lord Glenarvan's orders to take the DUNCAN immediately to Glasgow, and to make preparations for a voyage to the Southern Seas, and possibly round the world, for Lady Helena was right in her opinion that the yacht might safely attempt the circumnavigation of the globe, if necessary.
Cook, in his repeated circumnavigations of the globe, barely touched at their shores.
There were hostels built around the immense rim, Marina said, for pilgrims to stay in as they made circumnavigations of the summit.
It began to sing as soon as it came on board, and has now kept it going on two circumnavigations through the most inhospitable waters of the earth.
In order to stay out of thick clumps of bushes, he had to take countless turns and uphill and downhill circumnavigations until he began to empathize with mountain goats.
Holding it at arm's length so that he will not be plunged into a diabetic coma by its fumes, he commences a Magellanian circumnavigation of the dance floor, which is surrounded by an atoll of round tables that are adorned with white linen tablecloths, candles, and glass ashtrays.
In the Januaries and Februaries, sun-warmed southern air lofted into the stratosphere, turned east at the tropopause and joined the jet streams in their circumnavigations.
I was trying out a new motor that we have developed in Zodanga and was trying to establish a record for a circumnavigation of Barsoom at the Equator, and of course this place had to be on the Equator and right under me when my motor quit.