USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Circumnavigation is the complete navigation around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body (e.g. a planet or moon).

Detailed explanation-2: -Circumnavigate breaks down to circum-, “around, ” and navigare, “to navigate.” It was first used in the era when sailors were trying to find new lands they didn’t know about, and so the “around” in question was the trip around the entire earth.

Detailed explanation-3: -transitive verb. : to go completely around especially by water. circumnavigate the earth. also : to go around instead of through : bypass. circumnavigate a congested area.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first circumnavigation of earth by plane was completed by the United States Army Air Service in 1922. The fastest circumnavigation of the earth was completed by Air France with a Concorde flight lasting just over 31 hours in 1995.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) was a Portuguese explorer who is credited with masterminding the first expedition to circumnavigate the world. Magellan was sponsored by Spain to travel west across the Atlantic in search of the East Indies.