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Lake Ontario — Canada · United States

Lake Ontario – Sackets Harbor (NY) to Kingston (ON)

42.5 km
Distance
Sackets Harbor, New York ↔ Confederation Basin, Kingston, Ontario
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. Aug 12, 2003
    First crossingJohn Munro35:15
  2. Aug 12, 2003
    First from countryJohn Munro🇨🇦 Canada35:15
  3. Aug 12, 2003
    RecordJohn MunroSkin · Solo · 35:15
  4. Aug 12, 2003
    RecordJohn MunroWetsuit and other assisted swimwear · Solo · 35:15
  5. Aug 27, 2007
    RecordNatalie LambertSkin · Solo · 23:15

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.