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Pailolo Channel — United States

Pailolo Channel

15.5 km
Distance
Maui ↔ Molokaʻi
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Maui ↔ Molokaʻi: 15.5 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 197 crossings by swimmers from 7 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: Hawaiian Channel Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.