1st man traveled around the world in ship?
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Ferdinand Magellan was the first to try.  The ships he commanded made it all the way, but he died en route.  Juan Sebastian Elcano took over after he died and brought the ships home, so he made it.  Garcia Jofre de Loaysa's tried a bit alter.  All of his ships sank and he died, but Fernando de la Torre and eight survivors were picked up by a Portuguese ship and made it home. The first person to plan and lead and expedition and survive it was Sir Francis Drake.
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From 21st Century Science & Technology Magazine:\n\n"Around the year 232 B.C., Captain Rata and Navigator Maui set out with a flotilla of ships from Egypt in an attempt to circumnavigate the Earth.1 On the night of August 6-7, 2001, between the hours of 11 PM and 3 AM, this writer, and fellow amateur astronomer Bert Cooper, proved in principle that Captain Rata and Navigator Maui could have known."\n\nMore at the article link below.
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By whom?  And do you actually mean the United States or do you mean North America?  \n\nMany anthropologists now believe that Asians crossed the Bering Strait thousands of years ago to become the first human settlers of North America.  The Vikings visited the coasts of Labrador, Newfoundland, and possibly the eastern seaboard hundreds of years before Columbus.  Portuguese and Spanish fishermen were fishing off the coast of Newfoundland long before 1492.  By anyone's definition, Columbus was a late-comer.  And in any event when he got to the coast of North America there were already people here, so he didn't actually "discover" it.
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A Connosailur (connoisseur of sailing) !!!
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When I teach this subject my answer is always three fold.  FIRST-ancient peoples crossed over the land bridge between Asia and North America.  \n\nSECOND-Leif Erikson was the first known European to discover America\n\nTHRID- Columbus "rediscovered" America at a time when the knowledge caught hold and became widely known. \n\nMy personal belief is that many people discovered it independantly of others and thus were the true "first discoverer" at least in their own minds eye (and tribes or ships).
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The first person reputed to have walked around the world is George Schilling (USA), in 1904. The first verified walker was David Kunst who, from June 20, 1970, to October 5, 1974, walked 23,250 km (14,450 miles) over four continents. Since completing the first verified walk around the earth Dave has been telling his World Walk Adventure Story at schools and clubs across the USA and Australia.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger\n\njoseph kittinger\n\nhere's a video too:\n\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-369888258105653405&q=%22First+man+In+Space+-+Skydiving+from+the+edge+of+the+world%22+playable%3Atrue
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I BUILT A SHIP NAMED AFTER HIM!
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By definition, the Native Americans who came across the Bering Sea (in theory):\nhttp://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/immigrant\n\nOtherwise--the first non-native to arrive was Leif Erikson:\nhttp://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1575056496&id=sZwtPXP4uygC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=first+person+to+set+foot+in+America&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3Dfirst%2Bperson%2Bto%2Bset%2Bfoot%2Bin%2BAmerica&sig=K-S6AAqUaDtl0H2no_c3qaTmoJ8
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Well, according to seafaring lore, someone who has been everywhere has "sailed the seven seas".\nLooking on a Map, there are many more seas than seven, but I find only 4 oceans:\n\nPacific\nAltantic\nArtic\nIndian
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Yes, and I have. I was in a program called Semester at Sea and we traveled on a ship around the world on a "Voyage of Discovery" for 108 days, just over 3 months. My voyage left from Vancouver and made stops in Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Tanzania, South Africa, Brazil, and Cuba and returned to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I went in Fall 2003.\n\nIt was the best experience of my life and I had a phenomenal time. I learned so much and cannot wait to travel again.\n\nI will be graduating in 27 days (YAY!) and am actually going to be registering for a recruiting fair to teach overseas. I am sooo excited!
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Henry Hudson, Explorer \n\nBorn: 1570 (?) \nBirthplace: England \nDied: 1611 (?) \nBest Known As: The first European to sail up the Hudson River \nHenry Hudson was the English navigator who crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1609 and became the first European to sail up what is now the Hudson River in New York. Little is known about Hudson's early life. In 1607 he was hired by the English Muscovy Company to lead the ship Hopewell on an expedition north of the European continent, in an effort to discover a northeastern sea passage to the spice islands of the South Pacific. He reached Greenland and Spitzbergen before his path was blocked by ice. On his second voyage, a year later, he made it as far as the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean. Still convinced that there might be a separate passage to the northeast, the merchants of the Dutch East India Company hired Hudson in 1609 to lead an expedition on the ship Halve Maen (Half Moon in English). Hudson had other ideas, however, and sailed in the other direction, across the Atlantic to North America. He explored along the coast of Nova Scotia and down to what is now New York Harbor, sailing up the Hudson River as far north as Albany. Hudson's fourth voyage, aboard Discovery (1610-11), was financed by English merchants seeking the Northwest Passage across America to the Far East. He made it as far as Hudson's Bay before mutineers put him and eight others (including his son) adrift on a small boat in the bay in June of 1611. Although no record exists of their fate, the men were already sick and without provisions, and it is assumed Hudson and the others did not survive.
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columbus sailed west to the indies instead of going around africa because he thought it would be faster. most people those days believed the world was flat, but columbus thought the world was round. he went west, but ended up in north america, but he didn't know that. he called the people he saw there indians because he believed he was in the indies.
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His voyages to the Americas began a European effort at exploration and colonization of the continent. While history places great significance on his first voyage of 1492, he did not actually reach the mainland until his third voyage in 1498.
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Check here (look at the end for   See Magellan's voyage.)\n\nhttp://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/magellan.php#\n\nAlso here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan#Circumnavigation_and_return\n\nBest map here:\nhttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/printouts/m/magellan.shtml
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The first cosmonaut was Yuri Gagarin, who was launched into space on April 12, 1961 aboard Vostok 1.
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Someone with the ability to make & pilot a boat. :P