circumnavigation

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Circumnavigation is the only voyage that is both at the same time.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2016

Circumnavigation of the moon by an unmanned space ship. 1965-67.

From Time Magazine Archive

George McNeil's Circumnavigation was part of a one-man show at the Egan Gallery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Circumnavigation of the earth.—Determination of its curvature by the measurement of a degree and by the pendulum.

From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William

There is now also in preparation a minute narrative of The Circumnavigation of the Globe, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William