Robert McClure departed England with HMS Investigator to lead the first expedition to transit the Northwest Passage.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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Cook anchored off Kauaʻi and later Niʻihau, making contact with the islanders over the following days and exchanged food, water, and other supplies.
Slocum completed the first solo circumnavigation on June 27, 1898, after covering approximately 46,000 miles in an old Massachusetts oyster boat named Spray.
The first sighting had been of Point Hicks, but it wasn’t until the ship had travelled some distance along the coast to what is now known as Botany Bay that Cook and his crew felt they had found a suitable mooring.
28th November 1520: Ferdinand Magellan leads the first European fleet into the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic as part of his planned circumnavigation of the globe
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The channel they found through the South American landmass was named the Strait of All Saints, but is now known as the Strait of Magellan.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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