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#82 | 4/5/2018 | Author: antarcticcircle60s.pl | Type: Website | Keywords: Sailboat, Circumnavigation, Record, Antarctica
Non-stop sailing from Cape Town, South Africa to Hobart, Australia around the Antarctic continent, along, and south of the 60th parallel South. The voyage started: 23 December 2017 at 06:56:20 hours (UTC), and finished: 5th April 2018, 05:55:25 (UTC).
No sailor in history managed to circumnavigate Antarctica so close to the continent and at the same time so fast.
Guinness World Record (GWR): First circumnavigation of Antarctica in a sailboat south of the 60th parallel:
#117 | 7/11/2019 | Author: One More Orbit, Bob The Science Guy, WheresWa11y | Type: Website | Keywords: Circumflight, Record, Pole to Pole, Qatar, Gulfstream G650ER, Live, Video
On July 9-11 2019, 50 years after man first walked on the Moon, Action Aviation Chairman Hamish Harding and former International Space Station Commander Col. Terry Virts broke the Round-the-World record for any aircraft flying over the North and South poles in a Qatar Executive Gulfstream G650ER ultra long-range business jet. The attempt pushed the boundaries of human ingenuity - just like the Apollo 11 mission half a century ago.
Final Flight Time: 46:40:22
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#80 | 8/3/2019 | Author: Saildrone | Type: Website | Keywords: Saildrone, Circumnavigation, Antarctica, Radius
A seven-meter (23-foot) long, wind-powered unmanned surface vehicle (USV) called a saildrone has become the first unmanned system to circumnavigate Antarctica.
The 196-day mission was launched from Southport in Bluff, New Zealand, on January 19, 2019, returning to the same port on August 3 after sailing over 22,000 km (13,670 miles or 11,879 nautical miles) around Antarctica.
#116 | 10/30/1977 | Author: PeriscopeFilm | Type: Youtube | Keywords: Circumflight, Pole to Pole, Pan Am, Record, New Horizon, Documentary
On October 30, 1977, Pan Am 747SP "New Horizons" (N533PA) landed after flying over both North and South Poles in a record setting time of 54 hours, 7 minutes. This "Pan Am Flight 50" celebrated the 50th anniversary of Pan American Airlines. As documented in this historic film, the flight lasted from October 28-30,1977. It started at San Francisco/SFO and had three stopovers at London-Heathrow Airport, Cape Town International Airport, and Auckland Airport.
#62 | 2/20/2019 | Author: WheresWa11y, GreaterSapiens | Type: Youtube | Keywords: Sun, Circumflight, Antarctica, Southern Hemisphere, Flight, GPS
Great circle route passes very near Antarctica and because the circumference of the earth along a latitude line there is so short, the airplane was fast enough to follow the sun for some hours.
made a flight around the Globe. With his GPS device he recorded the whole flight. This video is about the flight from Sydney to Johannesburg. Because the