Category:Circumnavigations

This is a set category. It should only contain pages that are Circumnavigations or lists of Circumnavigations, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Circumnavigations in general should be placed in Category:Circumnavigation or one of its subcategories. Categories related to only an individual circumnavigation should not be in this category.

Articles about circumnavigations, complete navigations around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body (e.g. a planet or moon). The first recorded circumnavigation of the Earth was the Magellan-Elcano expedition, which sailed from Seville, Spain in 1519 and returned in 1522, after crossing the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. Since the rise of commercial aviation in the late 20th century, circumnavigating Earth is straightforward, usually taking days instead of years.