OmniathlonOWS
Coral Sea — Australia

Cairns - Green Island

27.9 km
Distance
Cairns ↔ Green Island
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

Timeline

Computed from the recorded crossings: the first, the first by sex, the first from each country and every record broken.

  1. 1977
    First crossingEddie Lovelock8:33:01
  2. 1977
    First from countryEddie Lovelock🇦🇺 Australia8:33:01
  3. 1977
    RecordEddie LovelockSkin · Solo · 8:33:01
  4. 1978
    RecordEddie LovelockSkin · Solo · 8:33
  5. 2010
    RecordChris PalfreyWetsuit and other assisted swimwear · Solo · 7:54
  6. 2014
    First from countryCameron Keith🇬🇧 United Kingdom7:06
  7. 2014
    RecordCameron KeithWetsuit and other assisted swimwear · Solo · 7:06

Crossings per decade

1219702010

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.