Sunday, June 3, 2012

circumnavigate--Hayden

cir·cum·nav·i·gate  (sûrkm-nv-gt)
tr.v. cir·cum·nav·i·gat·ed, cir·cum·nav·i·gat·ing, cir·cum·nav·i·gates
1. To proceed completely around: circumnavigating the earth.
2. To go around; circumvent: circumnavigate the downtown traffic.


Context
Hayden knows that the first person to circumnavigate the world was NOT Magellan, as many believe, because Magellan was killed in the Philllipines and did not complete the trip around the world; in fact, the first person to circumnavigate the earth was Magellan's Basque navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano.

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