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Atlantic Ocean — South Africa

Blouberg - Robben Island

7.5 km
Distance
Robben Island (Murray's Harbour) ↔ Big Bay, Bloubergstrand
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Robben Island (Murray's Harbour) ↔ Big Bay, Bloubergstrand: 7.5 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 2738 crossings by swimmers from 0 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: Cape Long Distance Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.