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Erden Eru Airden Airrooch, born July 1961 is a Turkish adventurer who became the first person in history to complete an entirely solo and entirely humanpowered circumnavigation of the Earth onJuly 2012 in Bodega Bay, California, United States. The journey had started from Bodega Bay a little more than five years earlier onJuly 2007. The modes of transport included a rowboat to cross the oceans, a sea kayak for shorelines, a bicycle on the roads and hiking on trails, along with canoes for a few river crossings. The route he followed was 66,299160km long, crossed the equator twice and all lines of longitude, and passed over twelve pairs of antipodal points, meeting all the requirements for a true circumnavigation of the globe. Guinness World Records has officially recognized Eru for the First solo circumnavigation of the globe using human power on a journey that lastedyearsdayshours andminutes, the current world record time for a solo humanpowered circumn

Eru was born in Nicosia, Cyprus onJuly 1961 and raised in Turkey. He has been an avid outdoorsman from an early age. When he was 11, his father took him for a climbing trip to Mount Erciyes, an extinct stratovolcano in south central Turkey and the highest mountain in central Anatolia with a summit at 3,916160m . During his higher education years, Eru studied mechanical engineering at Boazii University in Istanbul where he earned both a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree. In 1986, he moved to the United States where he continued his studies in engineering and business administration, earning a second Master of Science degree in Engineering Mechanics at Ohio State University and an MBA degree at George Mason University.

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