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You are dead right it was all PR (national identity) from the grave. Magellan (Portugese) and Elcano (Basque/Spain) where Magellan was the one who started it but largely funded by King of Spain. However combination of Portugal wanted to recognise a Portuguese explorer, and Spain had fears of...

Is this a trick question? If you get home from a circumnavigation and no-one has any idea of what you have achieved, then you can only be talking about orphans and or very secretive types. Therefore my comment here about the human condition of recognising achievement of others over and above...

Brisbane Bill is the one to ask. He is doing it again another another time now.

Cossover. The St Helena High pushes them west onto Arg/Brazil coast both inbound and outbound.

Phillipines not Patagonia? Mate that Magellan credit thing where he didn't make it back to where he started by dropping dead you will have to take up with the Club President from that time. However as he died around 1550 that could be a challenge. Also maybe fruitless bloody lot of history books...

Only "dead centre" for 365.25 nonconsecutive seconds every year :-)

That therein lies the problem. There actually is a "prize" and the OP's question has sought information on the "rules" for securing that prize. That prize is being inducted into the "Circumnavigation Club." It is open to all but an exclusive club where where those that are inducted are judged...

His experiences with tiller pilots was/is always pretty interesting on how long they would last.

So a circumnavigation route definition can't be "commercially" or "race" course derived (NB. The Speed Council has circumnavigation course parameters for record making). Therefore that only leaves "recreational". However recreational circumnavigators don't readily leave a trail, some take years...

Don't worry he wasn't forgotten. 

Yes the bit that's under the sea is included. Yes less circumference (longitude seperation) the higher the latitude number. Well done.

Experience and detailed scientific reasoning behind it working. Well done. Sometimes even with the combination of those two people can get it wrong. If you asked anyone who had climbed My Everest if the had climbed the world's tallest mountain and at its summit were closer to the moon than on...

Hence I was carefull to say "circumnavigation route." that incorporated Australia and NZ trade. There generic term "Clipper Route" was that between Europe and the Far East with opium a cargo of choice, particularly American Clipper ships. Clipper Ships did go east to west around Cape Horn into...

Gold earing right ear ..well that's means you squat to take a piss. If you can do that into a Storm or Violent Storm if gusting over 55 and not fill your shoes up..well you are a Legend mate :-)

While "The 5 Capes" or "5 Oceans" may be the route for some prominent yacht races such as the Vendée Globe, it has nothing to do with racing.  The route you refer incorporating the Suez and or Panama canals only came into being as a consequence of marine steam engines. Or in other words "only...

Yes "The 5 Capes",  though many when saying they sailed around "Cape Leeuwin" and "South East Cape" Australia, they are using a special chart and pretending New Zealand is too small to matter.