- Description: Journalist Paul Pirvu and artist Demetre (Demetrio) Dann undertook a round-the-world walk to win an unspecified sum
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Romania
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: 100'000 Kilometres (63'000 english miles) - Must be covered inside of 6 years for a reward
- Description: The two war veterans, Keller and Plück, roamed with a model of Drachenfels (Germany)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Mit dem Drachenfels und Königswinter durch die Welt. Angefertigt von den beiden Schwerkriegbeschädigten H. Keller u. A. Plück
- Description: Bicycle trip to Rome by Polster, Schnetzer, and Ziegler in 1925
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Polster, Schnetzer, Ziegler. Romfahrt 1925
- Description: Edmond Plauchut published an account of his around-the-world trip in 1871 (some authors mistakenly report the name as Planchut). There are no attestations confirming what the author described
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Planchut
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1824-1909
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18115739
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Edmond Planchut, Tour du monde en cent-vingt jours, Revue des deux mondes, settembre 1871.
Pour se rendre aux Indes ou dans l'extrême Orient, le voyageur n'a plus que l'embarras du choix: chaque semaine, de Marseille, de Southampton, de Trieste, de Brindisi, partent des bateaux à vapeur à destination de Port-Saïd, et telles sont aujourd'hui la rapidité et la facilité des communications, que l'on peut en quinze jours avoir vu les pyramides, traversé le désert qui sépare Le Caire de Suez, sillonné la Mer-Rouge dans toute sa brûlante étendue, puis, le détroit de Bab-el-Viandeb franchi, se trouver transporté en Asie, à Aden, dans la partie la plus pittoresque de l' Arabie-Heureuse.
- Description: In 1891, Pocock followed the Outlaw Trail, 3'000 miles solo from Canada (Fort McLeod) to Mexico City
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On horseback, A cavallo, A cheval
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Americas, Americhe, Amérique
- Description: Wiley Hardeman Post was an American aviator and the first pilot to fly solo around the world. In 1931, with navigator Harold Gatty, he circumnavigated the globe in 15,747 km (9,787 mi), taking 8 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes. In 1933, he equipped his Lockheed Vega with an autopilot and radio direction finder and completed the first solo circumnavigation in 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes. He was also a pioneer in high-altitude flying, helping develop one of the first pressure suits and discovering the jet stream. Post died in a plane crash in Alaska in 1935 alongside humorist Will Rogers
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1898-1935
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Plane, Aeroplano, Avion
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: http://www.wileypost.org
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q264389
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Post, Wiley H. Around the World in Eight Days, with Harold Gatty, 1931.
In 1930, the record for flying around the world was not held by a fixed-wing aircraft, but by the Graf Zeppelin, piloted by Hugo Eckener in 1929 with a time of 21 days. On June 23, 1931, Post and the Australian navigator Harold Gatty, left Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, in the Winnie Mae with a flight plan that would take them around the world, stopping at Harbour Grace, Flintshire, Hanover twice, Berlin, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, Nome, where his propeller had to be repaired, Fairbanks where the propeller was replaced, Edmonton, and Cleveland before returning to Roosevelt Field.
- Description: Tour of France by Plautz and Guthertz
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: -
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Vélo-club Bischheim Strasbourg
- Description: The runner Vittorio Polentes from Vittorio Veneto claims in his postcard to be engaged in the tour of Italy on foot
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Il podista Polentes Vittorio di Vittorio Veneto che sta compiendo il giro d'Italia a piedi, offre questa cartolina ricordo
- Description: Journey on foot by the Price family from Seattle to Chicago
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Price and family - Hiking from Seattle to Chicago
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