Hudson River — United States

Around Manhattan

45.9 km
Distance
Island loop from Manhattan
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Island loop from Manhattan: 45.9 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 1199 crossings by swimmers from 0 countries.

The distance is the shortest loop in the water around the island, starting and finishing at the same point: it follows the shape of the coast and never cuts across land. It is not the length of the GPS track.

Source: New York Open Water. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.