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- Description: Niels Andersen (born 1934, Denmark) and Svend Pedersen (born 1936, Denmark) were a Danish civil engineer and a clerk from Braaby, Denmark. Between 21 May and approximately 8 October 1953 they completed a round-the-world journey on Danish motorcycles, covering Europe (Denmark, Germany, Yugoslavia, Greece), Asia (Turkey, Persia, Pakistan, India, then by ship to Japan), and North America (by ship to San Francisco, then by motorcycle to New York), returning by ship to Denmark. The journey was undertaken to demonstrate the reliability of Danish motorcycles
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Denmark, Danimarca, Danemark
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://berndtesch.de
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- Description: Siegfried Neuhaus was a German motorcyclist from Halberstadt. On 11 September 1934 he departed Berlin with Hans Reichardt as pillion rider on a Harley-Davidson, on a round-the-world journey completed in approximately one year. The two met the Polish couple Bujakowski and Korolec-Bujakowska in Baghdad, having chosen an almost identical route. Hans Reichardt may have left the journey in Siam (Thailand), reportedly having been commissioned by the King of Siam to manage a hotel. Neuhaus continued alone to Shanghai, then Japan, then crossed the United States from Los Angeles to New York, returning by ship to Copenhagen and by motorcycle to Halberstadt, arriving around August 1935. All souvenirs, photographs and the Harley-Davidson were lost when Halberstadt was destroyed in the final days of World War II. Only a handful of photographs survived, which Neuhaus reportedly kept in his breast pocket throughout his life
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://berndtesch.de
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- Description: John Gill was a British motorcycle traveller from Bradford, Yorkshire. Between 1928 and 1930 he completed a round-the-world journey of approximately 37,000 km (23,000 miles) on an HRD-Noxal sidecar outfit. Walter Stephens, from London, rode pillion from England to Australia, where he abandoned the venture. The Australian engineer Phil Irving then joined Gill as pillion rider for the return leg to England. Back in Britain, Irving went on to become the engineering partner of Vincent motorcycles. During the journey Gill was imprisoned for 14 days in Constantinople over a passport dispute and was shot at by Bedouins while crossing the Syrian desert
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://berndtesch.de
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- Description: Wiebe Wakker is a Dutch adventurer, keynote speaker and sustainable mobility advocate. In 2016, as a graduation project for his industrial design studies, he conceived the "Plug Me In" project: to drive from the Netherlands to Sydney, Australia, entirely in an electric car, with no money, relying solely on strangers for electricity, food and accommodation. On 15 March 2016 he departed Amsterdam in a retrofitted Volkswagen station wagon named "The Blue Bandit", powered by an electric motor with a range of approximately 200 km per charge. His route was determined entirely by the offers he received on his website, taking him through Norway, Eastern Europe, Turkey, Iran, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia. Over 1,119 days he crossed 33 countries and covered 95,000 km (59,000 miles), spending only $300 on electricity - mostly in outback Australia - while over 350 people hosted him and nearly 2,000 people from 45 countries offered assistance. He arrived at the Sydney Opera House on 7 April 2019, setting the world record for the longest journey ever made in an electric car. His arrival was covered by CNN, BBC, NOS News and National Geographic and broadcast in over 40 countries. The Blue Bandit ran on its original retrofitted motor throughout, suffering only one flat tyre. He subsequently continued travelling without flying, including a journey from Amsterdam to Dubai by public transport and a crossing of Mauritania by freight train
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Netherlands, Olanda, Hollande
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Car or similar, Mezzi a motore, Moyen motorisé
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa; Asia; Oceania
- Internet: https://plugmeinproject.com
- Multimedia: https://www.youtube.com/plugmeinproject1
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63182243
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- Description: Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Krasko is a Russian traveller, author and entrepreneur with a PhD in Economics. After graduating from the Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance and the University of Paris IX-Dauphine, he held senior positions in leading Russian banks for seventeen years and served as Financial Director in companies belonging to Roman Abramovich and Oleg Deripaska. In April 2010 he resigned and set off on a round-the-world journey lasting just over one year, visiting 36 countries across six continents and covering 137,000 km in total, of which 52,000 km overland. On his return in 2011 he was admitted to the Union of Russian Around-the-World Travellers and founded his own adventure travel company, "The Year of Spring" (Год Весны). He recounted the journey in God Vesny ("The Year of Spring", Postum, Moscow, 2012)
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Russia, Russia, Russie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Vari, Divers
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Krasko
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4239824
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Krasko, Vyacheslav. God Vesny: Puteshestviye dlinoyu v god. Mosca: Postum, 2012.
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- Description: Santhosh George Kulangara is an Indian traveller, television producer, director, broadcaster, editor and publisher. He began his career in television media at the age of 17, producing documentaries for Doordarshan. In 1997 he began solo travel outside India, documenting his journeys in Sancharam ("Travel"), the first visual travelogue in the Malayalam language, initially broadcast on Asianet from 2001 to 2012 and later on his own channel. As of 2025 he has travelled through 151 countries across all seven continents. In 2013 he founded Safari TV, the first Indian channel dedicated exclusively to travel, history and exploration, of which he serves as founder and Chief Explorer
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: SGK; Chief Explorer
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: India
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Vari, Divers
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://www.safaritv.in
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109475054
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- Description: Born Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Abdallah al-Lawati al-Tanji ibn Battuta on 24 February 1304 in Tangier, Morocco, Ibn Battuta was a Berber Muslim scholar, jurist and explorer, widely considered the greatest traveller of the pre-modern world. On 14 June 1325, aged 21, he departed Tangier on what he intended as a hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. He never stopped travelling. Over the following 29 years he covered approximately 120,000 km (75,000 miles) - a distance unsurpassed by any individual explorer until the steam age some 450 years later - visiting the equivalent of 44 modern countries across North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and China. His journeys took him through Morocco, Egypt, the Levant, Persia, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula, East Africa, Anatolia, the Black Sea, the Golden Horde, Central Asia, India - where he served as a qadi in Delhi for seven years under Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq - the Maldives, China, the Sahara and Mali. He never visited the same place twice if he could avoid it. Between 1352 and 1355, at the request of the Sultan of Morocco, he dictated his memoirs to the scholar Ibn Juzay al-Kalbi, who compiled them into the Rihla - formally titled A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling - the most detailed account of the medieval world produced by a single observer. Modern scholars note that some sections, particularly those concerning China, may have been embellished or drawn from other sources
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Morocco, Marocco, Maroc
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Vari, Divers
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Battuta
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7331
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- Description: Gunther Holtorf had a lengthy career with Lufthansa as country director in Argentina, Chile, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Uruguay, followed by a role as managing director of Hapag-Lloyd Flug. In 1989, after resigning his position, he set off from Germany with his third wife Beate in a 1988 Mercedes-Benz 300GD G-Wagen he named "Otto", with the initial intention of spending 18 months exploring Africa. The journey expanded into a 26-year round-the-world expedition. From 1990 his companion was Christine, whom he married shortly before her death from cancer in 2010; her son Martin occasionally joined as travel companion from 2007. Holtorf completed the journey alone on 16 October 2014, having visited 179 countries and covered approximately 900,000 km (560,000 miles) across all continents including North Korea, Myanmar and a 25,000 km solo crossing of China - routes he described as "pioneer tours" for being the first time a foreign vehicle had been granted access. Otto ran on its original engine throughout, carrying 400 spare parts in aluminium roof boxes and never suffering a breakdown. Otto is now on permanent display at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Untertürkheim, Stuttgart
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1937-2021
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Car or similar, Mezzi a motore, Moyen motorisé
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunther_Holtorf
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18347627
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- Description: Valery Sushkov is a Russian travel explorer, postal historian, documentary filmmaker, sommelier, restaurateur and hotelier with over 30 years of experience in the tourism and hospitality industry. He is the originator of the concept of "philatourism" - a form of travel combining philately and tourism - and the author of the world's first philatourism guidebook, published in Russia. He has visited over 50 countries, created over 100 travel brands, and participated in or organised over 100 expeditions across six continents. Notable expeditions include participation in an Antarctic expedition to the South Pole as a radio operator, and the organisation and leadership of an expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa. He is also an editor of regional guidebooks, director, screenwriter and producer of travel documentaries
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: philatourist №1
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Russia, Russia, Russie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Vari, Divers
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://postventure.ru/valery-sushkov
- Multimedia: https://rutube.ru/video/7b2a9f03220f8a892d4f0e5b87de6cbf/