OmniathlonOWS
Pacific Ocean — New Zealand

Poor Knights - Matapouri

23.3 km
Distance
Poor Knights Islands ↔ Matapouri Beach
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Poor Knights Islands ↔ Matapouri Beach: 23.3 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: New Zealand Open Water Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.