Lake Erie — Canada

Lake Erie – Pelee Island to Leamington (ON)

24.8 km
Distance
Pelee Island ↔ Leamington, Ontario
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Pelee Island ↔ Leamington, Ontario: 24.8 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 3 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: Solo Swims of Ontario. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.