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Thanks for posting this.  I've never heard of any of this before.   The clipper ship thing is interesting, but it seems to leave a lot of places that were major trade centers off.   I guess you have wool in New Zealand, but I've always hear of places like India and China and even Indonesia as...

Yes, that's what I meant.  Thank you for the clarification. 

Isn't "a sailing route that begins and ends at the same locaiton, goes in one general direction, and passes through at least one pair of antipodes"  a sufficient definition.  I believe it will always result in a course that crosses the equator twice, and is at least the length of the...

Ok, I'll stipulate to all your points.    Still, there is this question then: what's the (generally accepted, arbitrary, human created) definition of a sailing circumnavigation?     Because: apples to apples records are a good thing.   And a key part of almost every sport.  I still think...

A friend is flying from San Francisco to Delhi, India and then home via Newark.   He said "I'm circumnavigating, kinda".    And so we talked about that.   Circumnavigating is a big deal to a lot of sailors, and I know that there is a difference between using the short cuts of Panama Canal and...