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Atlantic Ocean — United States

Manhattan - Sandy Hook

26.8 km
Distance
The Battery, Manhattan ↔ Sandy Hook, New Jersey
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

The Battery, Manhattan ↔ Sandy Hook, New Jersey: 26.8 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 64 crossings by swimmers from 11 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 York Open Water. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.