She was a member of the Louis Antoine de Bougainville's voyage expedition that embarked on a round-the-earth trip between and Jeanne masked herself as a man and bordered the Etoile ship in pursuit of plants for her botanical profession. Robert Gray was an American trade merchant and sea captain famous for connecting trading voyages in the north Pacific coast of North America between and hence pioneering the famous American maritime fur trade in that region.
It was through this voyage that Gray completed the first American circumnavigation of the world and discovered the Colombia River in while exploring the coastline of Oregon County. The first Russian circumnavigation took place took place in and was funded by a Russian-American Company headed by Adam Johann von Krusenstern. The voyage involved a two-ship expedition, Hope under the command of Krusenstern and Neva under the command of Lisianski.
The aim of the expedition was for Russia to establish trading partnerships with China and Japan as well as examine California as a probable colony in South America. Bellingshausen was a prominent cartographer appointed to head the Russian expedition in exploring the Southern Ocean and finding land in the proximity of the South Pole. Mikhail Lazarev was second in command to Bellingshausen and prepared the expedition to Antarctica in The pair circumnavigated the globe twice and never lost each other on the two trips.
Joshua Slocum was a Nova Scotian American seaman and adventurer who became the first person to circumnavigate the globe single-handedly. He documented his adventures in his award-winning bestseller, Sailing Alone around the World. Joshua sailed using one of the gaff rigged sloop oyster boats he rebuilt in Massachusetts and named it the Spay. He disappeared aboard his boat in while exploring the Amazon River.
Harry Pidgeon was a renowned American sailor and an enthusiastic photographer who set the record as the second person to circumnavigate the globe single-handedly. He was also the first person to use the Panama Canal as the circumnavigation route and also the first solo circumnavigator to go round the earth twice. On both trips, Harry used a foot yawl, which he constructed by himself. Of all the men who sailed with Magellan, only 18 returned to Spain in People were amazed when they saw those on board the one remaining ship, Victoria , for they looked starved and filthy.
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