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Strait of Juan de Fuca — United States

Strait of Juan de Fuca

16.9 km
Distance
Vancouver Island (BC) ↔ Olympic Peninsula (WA)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Vancouver Island (BC) ↔ Olympic Peninsula (WA): 16.9 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 12 crossings by swimmers from 3 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: Northwest Open Water Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.