circumnavigation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   traveling around something (by ship or plane)

   Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth proved that it is a globe

2. 2
   noun

   The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.

   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.

Etymology

From circum- + navigation.