There's an ongoing dispute over what constitutes a circumnavigation (http://www.velovision.co.uk/cgi-bin/show_comments.pl?storynum=856) that linked to the Wikipedia one, but I hadn't seen the interactive one. (There are groups part way around human powered circumnavigations that include antipodal points who are miffed that another group who kept entirely to the Northern hemisphere are claiming to have already been the first to do one.)
Given an only moderately tricky trip to one pole or another, I could do a human-powered circumnavigation in the second sense in mere seconds. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's already been done.
> I could do a human-powered circumnavigation in the second sense in mere seconds.
They were using a "at least the length of the Tropic of Cancer" definition intended to allow aircraft to use jetstreams all the way around (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumnavigation#Aviation), so not quite that simple.
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Date: 2007-03-01 01:14 pm (UTC)(There are groups part way around human powered circumnavigations that include antipodal points who are miffed that another group who kept entirely to the Northern hemisphere are claiming to have already been the first to do one.)
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Date: 2007-03-01 07:12 pm (UTC)They were using a "at least the length of the Tropic of Cancer" definition intended to allow aircraft to use jetstreams all the way around (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumnavigation#Aviation), so not quite that simple.