Circumnavigation world record progression

This is a list of the fastest non-orbital circumnavigation made by a person or team.

People or team Total duration (days) Departure date Arrival date Notes Reference
Sebastian Elcano and crew 1082 20 September 1519 6 September 1522 [1]
Francis Drake and crew 1018 13 December 1577 26 September 1580 [1]
Thomas Cavendish and crew 781 21 July 1586 9 September 1588 [1]
Crew of the Eendracht (originally led by Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire) 748 14 June 1615 1 July 1617 [2]
John Byron and crew 676 2 July 1764 9 May 1766 [3]
George Simpson 605 March 1841 October 1842 [4]
This period is incomplete
George Francis Train "80 days" (excluding a month in France) 1870 1870 By ships and trains, from New York City, perhaps inspiring Jules Verne [5]
Nellie Bly 72 14 November 1889 25 January 1890 Multiple means of transport, inspired by Jules Verne [6]
George Francis Train 67 days, 12 hours, 3 minutes 18 March 1890 24 May 1890 By ships and trains, from Tacoma, Washington [5][7]
George Francis Train 64 days 9 May 1891 12 July 1891 By ships and trains, from Fairhaven, Washington [5]
Andre Jaeger-Schmidt, Henry Frederick, John Henry Mears 36 2 July 1913 6 August 1913 A combination of steamers, yachts, and trains [8]
John Henry Mears 23 days 15 hours 21 minutes and 3 seconds 1928 1928 [9]
Hugo Eckener 21 days, 5 hours and 31 minutes First circumnavigation in an airship, aboard LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin [10]
Pilot Wiley Post and navigator Harold Gatty 8 days, 15 hours and 51 minutes 1 July 1931 Lockheed Vega aeroplane
Wiley Post 7 days, 19 hours, 49 minutes 22 July 1933 Using an autopilot and radio direction finder
United States Air Force 94 hours and 1 minute 1949 1949 B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II. Four in-air refuelings were required for the flight, which covered 37,743 kilometres (23,452 mi).
This period may be incomplete
Unknown 45 hours and 19 minutes Unknown Unknown [11]
David Springbett 44 hours and 6 minutes 8 January 1980 10 January 1980 Retains record for circumnavigation using only scheduled transportation. [11]
Air France 32 hours 49 minutes and 3 seconds 1992 1992 Concorde

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Townsend, George Henry; Martin, Frederick W. (1862). The Manual of Dates: a Dictionary of Reference to All the Most Important Events in the History of Mankind to be Found in Authentic Records. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
  2. ↑ An Historical Account of the Circumnavigation of the Globe: And of the Progress of Discovery in the Pacific Ocean, from the Voyage of Magellan to the Death of Cook. Harper & brothers. 1837. p. 100.
  3. ↑ Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook: Miscellaneous (M series). National Library Australia. 1998. p. 29. ISBN 9780642106964. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
  4. ↑ Simpson, Sir George (1847). An overland journey round the world: during the years 1841 and 1842. Lea and Blanchard.
  5. 1 2 3 "William Lightfoot Visscher, Journal profile, part one". Skagitriverjournal.com. Retrieved 2013-07-20.
  6. ↑ Ruddick, Nicholas. “Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, and the World on the Threshold of the American Age.” Canadian Review of American Studies, Volume 29, Number 1, 1999, p. 8
  7. ↑ George Francis Train Sets the Record as the Fastest Person to Travel Round-The-World
  8. ↑ The New York Times, "A Run Around the World", August 8, 1913
  9. ↑ Glines, Carroll V. Round-the-world flights, Ch. 2 (3rd ed. 2003) ( ISBN 978-1574884487)
  10. ↑ Geisenheyer, Max. "Mit 'Graf Zeppelin' Um Die Welt: Ein Bild-Buch". Frankfurter Societäts-Druckerei G.m.b.H., Frankfurt am Mein (Germany), 1929.
  11. 1 2 Bonner, Sara "The fastest man in the atmosphere" in The Times, 12 January 1980, p.3.
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