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Pentland Firth Torness - Scarfskerry — United Kingdom

Pentland Firth Torness - Scarfskerry

14.5 km
Distance
Torness Lighthouse ↔ Scarfsk, Caithness
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

Timeline

Computed from the recorded crossings: the first, the first by sex, the first from each country and every record broken.

  1. Jul 11, 2011
    First crossingColleen Isla Blair4:41:21
  2. Jul 11, 2011
    First womanColleen Isla Blair4:41:21
  3. Jul 11, 2011
    First from countryColleen Isla Blair🇬🇧 United Kingdom4:41:21
  4. Jul 11, 2011
    RecordColleen Isla BlairSkin · Solo · 4:41:21

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: British Long Distance Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.