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Foveaux Strait — New Zealand

Bluff - Stewart Island

31.2 km
Distance
Bluff, South Island ↔ Stewart Island / Rakiura
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Bluff, South Island ↔ Stewart Island / Rakiura: 31.2 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 30 crossings by swimmers from 4 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 Zealand Open Water Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.