Indian Ocean — Australia

Mainland - Rottnest Island

21.8 km
Distance
Perth mainland (registro: "Mainland"; la gara parte da Cottesloe Beach) ↔ Rottnest Island
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

Crossings marked «documented» are historical: reconstructed from chronicles, newspapers, archives and race results, with no governing body to ratify them. In the rankings they stand with the ratified ones.

Traditional knitted textile swimsuit, cap and goggles: no wetsuit and no tech suit; no contact with the boat and no drafting behind it.

Podium · Skin · Solo · One-way

  1. 1
    5:49:56 · 1994 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  2. 2
    6:09:42 · 1996 · 2 in Skin · Solo
  3. 3
    7:01:50 · 1999 · 3 in Skin · Solo

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Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1V Kutraleeshwara19945:49:56documented
2Bruce Hyde - Half Century Club Member19966:09:42documented
3Michael Flower19997:01:50documented
4John Guilfoyle19997:02:08documented
5Trevor Pedler19957:09:13documented
6Cliff Howkins19998:18:14documented
7Patricia Smith19958:52:10documented
8Toby Regan19569:35documented
8Lesley Cherriman-Meaney - Half Century Club Member19699:35documented
10Gerd Von Dincklage SchulinburgJan 24, 19569:45documented
11John Olsen19999:50:35documented
12Dominique Achour-Fisher19999:55documented
13Peter Bradford199910:18:04documented
14Peter Coyle199912:10:07documented
—Peter Tanham1983—documented

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: Rottnest Channel Swim Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.