Pacific Ocean — New Zealand

Poor Knights - Matapouri

23.3 km
Distance
Poor Knights Islands ↔ Matapouri Beach
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. Source New Zealand Open Water Swimming Association.

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

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—Meda McKenzie1978—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: New Zealand Open Water Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.