the distance shorter than the Guinness guidelines. To go from North America to Asia on foot is theoretically possible but very difficult. It involves crossing the Bering Strait on the ice, and around of roadless swamped or freezing cold areas in Alaska and eastern Russia. No one has so far travelled all of this route by foot. David Kunst was the first verified person to walk around the world between 20 June 1970 and 5 October 1974. Notable circumnavigations Maritime The Castilian ('Spanish') Magellan-Elcano expedition of August 1519 to 8 September 1522, started by Portuguese navigator Fernão de Magalhães (Ferdinand Magellan) and completed by Spanish Basque navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano after Magellan's death, was the first global circumnavigation (see Victoria). The survivors of García Jofre de Loaísa's Spanish expedition 1525–1536, including Andrés de Urdaneta and Hans von Aachen, who was also one of the 18 survivors of Magellan's expedition, making him the first to circumnavigate the world twice. Francis Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition (and on a single independent voyage), from 1577 to 1580. Jeanne Baret is the first woman to complete a voyage of circumnavigation, in 1766–1769. John Hunter commanded the first ship to circumnavigate the World starting from Australia, between 2 September 1788 and 8 May 1789, with one stop in Cape Town to load supplies for the colony of New South Wales. completed the first circumnavigation by a steam ship in 1845–1847. The Spanish frigate Numancia, commanded by Juan Bautista Antequera y Bobadilla, completed the first circumnavigation by an ironclad in 1865–1867. Joshua Slocum completed the first single-handed circumnavigation in 1895–1898. In 1960, the U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine completed the submerged circumnavigation. In 1969, Robin Knox-Johnston became the first person to complete a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation. In 1999, Jesse Martin became the youngest recognized person to complete an unassisted, non-stop, circumnavigation, at the age of 18. In 2001, the U.S. Coast Guard became the first Coast Guard vessel to circumnavigate the globe. In 2012, PlanetSolar became the first ever solar electric vehicle to circumnavigate the globe. In 2012, Laura Dekker became the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe single-handed, with stops, at the age of 16. In 2017, trimaran IDEC 3 with sailors: Francis Joyon, Alex Pella, Clément Surtel, Gwénolé Gahinet, Sébastien Audigane and Bernard Stamm completes the fastest circumnavigation of the globe ever; in 40 days, 23 hours,