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circumnavigators

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  • noun Plural form of circumnavigator.

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Examples

  • The current membership ranges from novices to OSTAR winners, circumnavigators and Olympic medallists.

    Katie Miller wins bluQube Solo 1000 Mile Yacht Race Thatsnews 2008

  • The current membership ranges from novices to OSTAR winners, circumnavigators and Olympic medallists.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • Darwin went on to offer us a retrospective of the journey as well as some advice for any would-be circumnavigators ahem: If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for some branch of knowledge, which could by this means be advanced...

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • Darwin went on to offer us a retrospective of the journey as well as some advice for any would-be circumnavigators ahem: If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for some branch of knowledge, which could by this means be advanced...

    "Our Voyage having come to an end..." 2007

  • Herodotus and Plato, Plinius and — — ahem! much more when the circumnavigators are Britons; more, again, when

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • At different periods he was succeeded by other circumnavigators, of whom it is no part of the present narrative to give an account.

    Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

  • At different periods he was succeeded by other circumnavigators, of whom it is no part of the present narrative to give an account.

    Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

  • It may be noted in passing that Devonshire, particularly in the first part of the seventeenth century, was not an obscure part of England to hail from, for it was the native shire of England's first great naval heroes and circumnavigators of the globe, such as Drake and Cavendish.

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884 Various

  • Since the time of Cook, and other circumnavigators of that period, the character of these people has undergone a thorough change.

    A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 Augustus Earle

  • And it is worthy of notice, that the accounts handed down to us of the earliest colonists of the ancient world, speak of an aboriginal population existing in the countries to which they migrated, just as the European adventurers and circumnavigators of the last three centuries found indigenous races on the continents and islands they discovered, except on some few islands of the Pacific Ocean, recently emerged from the state of coral reefs.

    Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

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