circumnavigation

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Cook's circumnavigation of Australia, yielding 766 runs in a 3-1 victory down under in 2010-11 is one of the greatest modern achievements by any England player.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2023

Flinders joined the navy aged 15 and he made several coastal explorations of Australia, completing the circumnavigation in 1803.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2023

His fastest circumnavigation via both poles took 46 hours and 40 minutes and was done in July 2019.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2023

He flew to space last summer on a mission by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket company and holds a record for the fastest circumnavigation of Earth via both the geographic poles by plane.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2023

Mrs. Platt’s circumnavigation of her supper table completed, she began to revolve around the parlor, the plates being lain on the mantelpiece or the gaming table.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson