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 (originally led by Ferdinand Magellan) 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, travelled 24,903 kilometres (15,474 mi), did not cross equator
Wiley Post 7 days, 19 hours, 49 minutes 22 July 1933 Using an autopilot and radio direction finder, did not cross equator
James Gallagher and crew (United States Air Force) 94 hours and 1 minute 1949 1949 B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II. Four in-air refuelings, 37,743 kilometres (23,452 mi), did not cross equator and traveled no further south than the 20-degree parallel.
Col. James Morris[11] and crew (United States Air Force) 45 hours and 19 minutes January 16, 1957 January 18, 1957 Operation Power Flite, three B-52 bombers, led by Lucky Lady III, supported by at least 76 KC-76 refueling aircraft, 39,147 kilometres (24,325 mi), no equatorial crossing [12][13]
David Springbett 44 hours and 6 minutes 8 January 1980 10 January 1980 Retains record for circumnavigation using only scheduled transportation. [13]
Air France 32 hours 49 minutes and 3 seconds 1992 1992 Concorde
Michel Dupont and Claude Hetru (Air France) 31 hours 27 minutes and 49 seconds 15 August 1995 16 August 1995 Concorde with 98 passengers and crew, no equatorial crossing [14]

See also

References
  1. 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. p. 217. 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. pp. 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. "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. Morris had co-piloted the Gallagher flight in '49
  12. Airlift Tanker: History of U.S. Airlift and Tanker Forces. Turner Publishing Company. 1995. ISBN 9781563111259.
  13. Bonner, Sara "The fastest man in the atmosphere" in The Times, 12 January 1980, p.3.
  14. "Fastest circumnavigation by passenger aircraft". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
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