Steve Fossett completed the first around the world airplane solo non-stop journey.
Ellen MacArthur breaks the speed record for sailing solo around the world.
Sheila Scott became the first woman to fly solo around the world.
Neil Armstrong flew the X-15 craft to an altitude of 34 miles (54.6 km).
Aviator Howard Hughes started his around-the-world flight.
Danish-Norwegian explorer Caroline Mikkelsen became the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland.
Duo Wiley Post and Harold Catty started their 15,474-mile around the world flight from Long Island, New York.
The ''LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin” returned to Lakehurst, New Jersey, after being the first airship to circumference the earth in one journey.
The first flight over the North Pole was completed, flown by Richard E. Byrd with co-pilot Floyd Bennett.
Nellie Bly, a pioneering female journalist, embarked on a trip to travel around the world in less than 80 days.
The English explorer Verney Cameron became the first European to cross Africa from east to west.
On his second voyage, Charles Darwin arrived at Tahiti and noted rich fertile lands and intelligent natives.
Aboard the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin discovered the Galapagos Islands.
Charles Darwin explored Bahia, San Salvador, Brazil, and fell in love with its variety of plants, flowers, animals & insects.
Captain William Smith discovered Williams Point at the far northeast of Livingston in the South Shetlands.
Captain James Cook set sail on his first voyage from Plymouth, heading for the Pacific Ocean.
French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis began his journey to Lapland to plot the shape of the Earth.
Captain William Penn set sail from Deal, England, on his famous voyage to the New World on his ship named 'Welcome.'
Henry Hudson began a journey up the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
Sir Frances Drake completed his famous circumnavigation of the world when he sailed into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind.
Navigator Ferdinand Magellan began his exploration of the Pacific Ocean.
