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Crater Lake National Park announced Tuesday that it had shut down a portion of Rim Drive, the road that circumnavigates Oregon’s famous caldera, for the rest of the 2023 season.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2023

The L.E.D. screen—sixty feet long and almost two stories tall—flashes with ads for Broadway plays, beer, and children’s movies, as the boat circumnavigates lower Manhattan.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 18, 2019

The open-air expedition circumnavigates the island’s undeveloped coastline — a mini safari in the middle of the Pacific.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2019

It is easily accessed from the “ring road” that circumnavigates the park, the Cabot Trail, and follows a long ridge with a stunning view of the coast.

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2016

Jupiter" said John, as he leisurely rolled a cigarette, "circumnavigates the sun once while the earth goes around it twelve times.

From The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer by Micheaux, Oscar