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Derwent River — Australia

New Norfolk Bridge - Tasman Bridge

25.6 km
Distance
New Norfolk Bridge ↔ Tasman Bridge, Hobart
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

New Norfolk Bridge ↔ Tasman Bridge, Hobart: 25.6 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 194 crossings by swimmers from 15 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: Derwent River Big Swim. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.