Khitroff circumnavigated the island and found various traces of human habitation.
Wherefore, for all their rotundity, they are too often circumnavigated by hatchet-faced knaves.
Then shall we list to no shallow gossip of Magellans and Drakes; but give ear to the voyagers who have circumnavigated the Ecliptic; who rounded the Polar Star as Cape Horn.
The Spaniards (as also the English) have frequently circumnavigated (by an immense circuit) the whole globe by aid of the mariners' compass.
James Cook circumnavigated the Globe in high southern latitudes, discovering the sub-antarctic island of South Georgia.
Leaving his brother Diego in charge, Columbus explored the southern coast of Cuba, discovered Jamaica, and circumnavigated Espanola.
Several companies were immediately formed, and in 1598 twenty-two vessels sailed by the Cape of Good Hope route for the East, and Olivier van Noort passed through the Straits of Magellan and circumnavigated the earth.
The natives of Guanahani whom he had brought on his ship informed him that Cuba was a very large island, which could not be circumnavigated in twenty days; that it contained ten large rivers and that its whole expanse was well watered.
Somewhat more significant is the fact that Peter Martyr spoke of Cuba as an island, and said that some sailors pretended to have circumnavigated it.
Thence we came through the Wisconsin and Fox valleys to Green Bay, on an arm of Lake Michigan, and, having circumnavigated the latter, returned through Lakes Huron and St. Clair to Detroit.
In 1603, the globe had been twicecircumnavigated by Englishmen.
When Vespucci wrote his letters there was no doubt entertained but that Columbus had discovered the main-land in his first voyage; Cuba being always considered the extremity of Asia, until circumnavigated in 1508.
It appears to be satisfactorily proved, however, that the voyage of this navigator has been greatly exaggerated, and that he never circumnavigated the extreme end of Africa.
Australia had thus been, for the first time, completely circumnavigated by Flinders.
The very idea of having circumnavigated the globe exalts the enthusiasm of English sailors.
His heroic lieutenant, Juan Sebastian de Elcano, then took command, and continued the voyage until he had circumnavigated the globe for the first time in its history.
On the 24th they rounded the north point of the South Island, and on the 27th Cook writes: "As we have now circumnavigated the whole of this country, it is time for me to think of quitting it.
Pharaoh Neco sent a Phoenician expedition from the Red Sea, which circumnavigated Africa and returned by the Straits of Gibraltar, or the Pillars of Hercules.
His ship, called the Victory, was the first that circumnavigated the globe; and the only one of his squadron that surmounted the dangers and distresses which attended this heroic enterprise.
Footnote 4: The description of Taprobane given by Ptolemy proves that the island had been thoroughly circumnavigated and examined by the mariners who were his informants.
We have circumnavigated the lake and returned to our starting point, and in some way missed the outlet.
They, too, must have been carried by accident into the wrong channel, and no doubt they circumnavigated the lake, as we have done.
If they sailed from the Red Sea, and returned by the Mediterranean, they must have circumnavigated Africa.
In three months they returned to Port Jackson, after having circumnavigated Van Dieman's Land, and completed the survey of its coasts.
Juan de Salcedo has returned from explorations in Luzon, during which he has circumnavigated the island—the first to accomplish that feat.
On that voyage I circumnavigated the whole world, and since it is a feat which no man had [before] accomplished, I have composed a short narration of all the said voyage, which I desire to have printed.
Finally he sailed one hundred leguas, coasting along the island to the point of his settlement, and he has explored and circumnavigated it.
It was formerly circumnavigated by Captain Juan de Salzedo and then after the year 80 by Captain Don Juan de Arze at the order of Governor Francisco de Sande.
He had circumnavigated the globe, yet had refrained from writing a book of travel.
Magellan's ship Victoria, under Sebastian del Cano, reaches Spain, having circumnavigated the globe in three years.
It is even said that one of their admirals, at the command of Necho, king of Egypt, circumnavigated Africa, for Herodotus reports that on the homeward voyage the sun set in the sea on the right hand.
Drake sailed along Pacific Coast to Oregon; wintered in San Francisco, andcircumnavigated the globe 1582.
Footnote: He was thus the first Englishman who explored the Pacific coast, and the second European who circumnavigated the globe.
According to Herodotus, a Phnician squadron circumnavigated Africa at the beginning of the seventh century before Christ, completing the voyage in three years.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "circumnavigated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
