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Bristol Channel — United Kingdom

Ilfracombe - Swansea

47.5 km
Distance
Ilfracombe ↔ Swansea
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Ilfracombe ↔ Swansea: 47.5 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 3 crossings by swimmers from 2 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.