Anacapa Channel — United States

Anacapa circumnavigation + return to mainland

30.6 km
Distance
Anacapa Island ↔ Mainland (Oxnard)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Anacapa Island ↔ Mainland (Oxnard): 30.6 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 7 crossings by swimmers from 2 countries.

Distance is the shortest straight line between the start and finish coastal stretches, not the GPS track length: currents cause swimmers to cover much more distance.

Source: Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.