List of Circumnavigations - Mixed Transportation

Mixed Transportation

• In 1881, King Kalākaua traveled around the world, over land and sea, thus becoming the first reigning monarch to complete such a journey.
• Thomas Stevens was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle. The feat was accomplished between 1884 and 1886. While impressive at the time, a good portion of the trip was by steamer due to technical and political reasons.
• Nellie Bly traveled around the world with public steamboats and trains in 72 days (from November 14, 1889 to January 25, 1890), a world record, resembling the Around the World in Eighty Days novel.
• George Matthew Schilling is reputed to have walked around the world between 1897 and 1904, though this feat was unverified.
• Dumitru Dan was the first person to have walked around the world, in 1910–1923 (he kept walking even on the boats' deck).
• Clärenore Stinnes and Carl-Axel Söderström were the first persons to drive around the world in a car between 25 May 1927 and 24 June 1929.
• Beginning in Montreal, Ben Carlin circumnavigated the world in a modified Ford GPA Jeep between 1950 and 1958, becoming the first person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle.
• David Kunst walked around the world between 20 June 1970 and 10 October 1974.
• Arthur Blessitt walked around the world carrying a 45 lb (20 kg) wooden cross, covering 38,102 miles (61,319 km) through 315 countries, between 1969 and 2008.
• Heinz Stucke has been cycling around the world since 1965.
• Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Charles Burton and their team circumnavigated 'vertically' via the two poles on the Transglobe Expedition.
• Rick Hansen, a world-class paraplegic athlete, became the first person to travel around the world in a wheelchair on 22 May 1987, covering over 40,000 km through 34 countries on four continents.
• Robert Garside is credited by Guinness World Records as the first person to run around the world between 1997 and 2003, taking 2,062 days to cover 30,000 miles (48,000 km) across 29 countries and 6 continents.
• Jesper Olsen travelled 26,000 kilometres (16,000 mi) in 2004, completed circumnavigation solely on foot (except for airplane or boats over the seas).
• Colin Angus circumnavigated the northern hemisphere solely by human power in 2006 but did not qualify under the Guinness guidelines as a human powered circumnavigation. His attempt, however, was recognized by National Geographic.
• Jason Lewis completed a full human powered circumnavigation in 2007, covering 46,505 miles (74,843 km) in both the southern and northern hemispheres that reached antipodal points, gaining accreditation by Adventurestats by Explorersweb for being the first to circumnavigate the globe using only human power. However it failed to meet Guinness rules for a human powered circumnavigation.
• Mark Beaumont broke the record for cycling around globe in 2008. He began his attempt on 5 August 2007 and completed the 18,297-mile (29,446 km) journey across 4 continents and 21 countries 194 days and 17 hours later on 15 February 2008.
• Ed Gillespie (environmental communicator and Co-Founder of "Futerra") travelled around the world without flying between March 2007 and March 2008
• Rosie Swale-Pope travelled 32,000 kilometres (20,000 mi) in 2008 completed circumnavigation solely on foot (except for airplane or boats over the seas).
• Garry Sowerby holds four world records for circumnavigation in an automobile.
• Erden Eruç completed the first entirely solo human-powered circumnavigation traveling by rowboat, sea kayak, foot and bicycle between 10 July 2007 and 21 July 2012. Erden crossed the equator two times, passed over 12 antipodal points, and logged over 66,000 km (about 41,000 miles).