31. She hopes to finish the journey that Earhart had hoped would make her the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. 32. The balloon was to circumnavigate the globe during the next two weeks, passing over southern Africa and South America before returning to Australia. 33. The Jones-Piccard attempt is the latest in a series of tries to circumnavigate the globe by balloon. 34. Two other balloons set off earlier this month to try to circumnavigate the globe, but both attempts ended quickly in emergency landings. 35. When she returns she will go down as the first woman to have circumnavigated the globe in a westerly direction. 36. Horie has twice circumnavigated the globe in one-man boats. 37. Fossett has the record for the longest solo balloon flight for his last attempt to circumnavigate the globe that ended when he aborted in Brazil because of bad weather. 38. Erhart never completed her daring attempt at circumnavigating the globe around the equator, disappearing mysteriously near Howland Island in the Pacific. 39. The race features the top sailors from around the world, circumnavigating the globe. |