Definition of "circumnavigation" noun countable and uncountable , plural circumnavigations
The act of circumnavigating , or sailing round . quotations examples
Quotations Under our new World may alſo be compriſed thoſe vaſt Southern Coaſts and Streights of Magelan , firſt lighted on by Ferdinandus Magelanus in the year 1520, in his Circumnavigation of the Univerſe ; which forty five years after Sir Francis Drake , and next Sir Thomas Bendiſh , Engliſhmen , made a furhter inſpection into ; and in the Year 1600 Oliver van Noord a Hollander paſt , but of later years a Spaniard , Fedinand de Quier , out -ſhot them all by a more ample Diſcovery then all the former .
1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, pages 3–4