circumnavigator

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Circumnavigator Sir Francis Chichester, 69, plans to set out from Plymouth, England, this week for an assault on the singlehanded seaman's equivalent of the four-minute mile.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Havre Circumnavigator Gerbault was given a warm reception, a gold medal, was made officer of the Legion of Honor.

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As far as possible, 66-year-old Circumnavigator Perelman will confine himself to such modes in following Fogg's itinerary.

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Less than a week after his triumphant arrival home, Britain's Circumnavigator Sir Francis Chichester, 65, was hurried to Plymouth's Royal Naval Hospital with a hemorrhage of an unsuspected duodenal ulcer.

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It is with the utmost concern," runs the announcement, "that we inform the Public, that the celebrated Circumnavigator, Captain Cook, was killed by the inhabitants of a new-discover'd island in the South Seas.

From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by Synge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)