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Jason’s 46,505-mile journey took 13 years, 2 months and 24 days. He is acknowledged by Guinness World Records and adjudicators AdventureStats by Explorers Web as the first person to circumnavigate the earth using human power [1] [2] . [links]
From Darwin, Jason kayaked and swam through Indonesia to Singapore, mountain biked through Southeast Asia to Tibet and over the Himalayas to India, then pedalled across the Arabian Sea to Djibouti. The final leg of the circumnavigation was biking, kayaking, pedalling, and rowing through East Africa to the Middle East and Europe to recross the Greenwich Meridian Line. [links]
Biking, hiking, and inline skating overland, and kayaking, swimming, rowing, and pedalling a unique ocean-going craft across the rivers, oceans and seas, the pair headed west through Europe, across the Atlantic Ocean, North America and the Pacific. Steve decided to leave the expedition on the Big Island of Hawaii, leaving Jason to carry on alone. Upon making landfall in Australia, he and a team of teachers and teenagers mountain biked across the outback, hitting a second antipodal point to one that Jason and Steve had reached on the Atlantic. This ensured meeting the criteria for true circumnavigation as set by Guinness World Records and Explorers Web. here
Click to enlarge | Route of first circumnavigation by human power Expedition 360 here
“[A] true circumnavigation of the Earth must: start and finish at the same point, traveling in one general direction, reach two antipodes*, cross the equator, cross all longitudes, cover a minimum of 40,000km.”—Circumnavigate definition by AdventureStats by Explorers Web.
The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is often credited as being the first person to have circumnavigated the globe, but the reality of his journey is a bit more complicated. Magellan first set sail in September 1519 as part of an epic attempt to find a western route to the spice-rich East Indies in modern-day Indonesia. While he successfully led his crew across the Atlantic, through a strait in southern South America and over the vast expanse of the Pacific, he was killed only halfway through the circuit in a skirmish with natives on the Philippine island of Mactan. Magellan’s death meant that he personally failed to circle the world, but his expedition continued on without him. In September 1522, one of his ships arrived safely back in Spain having completed a successful circumnavigation of the globe. Of the mission’s 260 original crewmen, only 18 had survived the perilous three-year journey. here
If Magellan wasn’t the first person to circle the globe, then who was? The most obvious candidate is Juan Sebastian Elcano, a Basque mariner who took control of the expedition after Magellan’s death in 1521 and captained its lone surviving vessel, the “Victoria,” on its journey back to Spain. Elcano and his sailors stand as the first people to have successfully voyaged around the world as part of a single journey, but they might not be the first humans to have circumnavigated the globe over the course of a lifetime. Opinions differ, but many historians give the honor to Magellan’s Malay slave, Enrique. Magellan had seized Enrique from Malacca during an earlier 1511 voyage to the East Indies, and the Malay later served as the round-the-world expedition’s interpreter in the Pacific islands. Enrique had previously traveled west with Magellan from Asia to Europe before joining in the voyage across the Atlantic and Pacific, so by the time the mission reached Southeast Asia, he had very nearly circled the globe and returned to his homeland—albeit over the course of several years and multiple voyages. Enrique abandoned the expedition and disappeared shortly after Magellan’s death in the Philippines. By then, he was only a few hundred miles short of his point of origin in Malacca. If he ever returned to his homeland, then Enrique may deserve the true credit for being the first person to circumnavigate globe.
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Hereof, who sailed around the world to prove it was round? here
Myth: Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães) was the first person to circumnavigate the globe. There's no doubt that Magellan intended to have a successful journey when his expedition set off from Spain on September 20, 1519.
Likewise, when was the first circumnavigation of the world? 8 September 1522
Has anyone ever sailed around the world? [links]
The current record holders are IDEC 3, skippered by Francis Joyon in 40 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds for a crewed journey, and François Gabart with Macif in 42 days, 16 hours, 40 minutes and 35 seconds for a solo journey. [links]
Of all the men who sailed with Magellan, only 18 returned to Spain in 1522. People were amazed when they saw those on board the one remaining ship, Victoria, for they looked starved and filthy.
By now one of his ships had deserted, but the other four started the journey across their new-found sea. To everyone's amazement, the crossing was to take three months and 20 days. Magellan and his men suffered terrible hunger on the voyage. They ran out of fresh food and many died of scurvy. [links]
Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) was a Portuguese explorer who is credited with masterminding the first expedition to circumnavigate the world.
Magellan was sponsored by Spain to travel west across the Atlantic in search of the East Indies. In doing so, his expedition became the first from Europe to cross the Pacific Ocean and circumnavigate the world.
So although he had masterminded the first expedition to sail around the world, he didn’t complete the voyage. In fact, the first person to sail around the world was a Malaysian, who had come back to Europe with Magellan many years before and then went as an interpreter on his later voyage. The first European to complete the circumnavigation was Magellan's second-in-command, Juan Sebastian de Elcano, who took over after his death.
Magellan was born in Portugal and was a successful explorer and navigator. He wanted to reach South-East Asia, where spices grew and gems were to be found, by sailing westwards across the Atlantic Ocean. He hoped to find a passage through South America so that he could sail all the way from the Atlantic to the ocean beyond the Americas (now known as the Pacific). He left Spain in 1519 with five ships and about 260 men.
A month later, the expedition reached the Philippines. To the crew’s surprise, Enrique, an enslaved man Magellan had purchased before the journey, could understand and speak the indigenous people’s language. It turned out he was likely raised there before his enslavement—making him, not Magellan, the first person to circumnavigate the globe.
As the crew forged across the Pacific Ocean, food spoiled and scurvy and starvation struck. Magellan and his men briefly made landfall in what was likely Guam, where they killed indigenous people and burned their homes in response to the theft of a small boat.[links]
World history is such a vast subject that it is often reduced to soundbites one can remember, whether they are true or not. Most likely, you learned in school that Ferdinand Magellan was the first to sail around the world. It's true that his 1519 expedition set out to do that, in order to find a new route to the spices of Indonesia. But only one of his five ships made it back to Spain in 1522, and Magellan was long dead by then. That's because he made his way around the globe while pillaging, killing, and trying to convert everyone he met along the way.
Magellan swiftly claimed the Philippines on Spain’s behalf, but his involvement in what Bergreen calls an “unnecessary war” was his undoing. “He wasn’t defeated by natural forces,” says Bergreen.