Palk Strait — Sri Lanka

Point Calimere - Valvettithurai

61.5 km
Distance
Point Calimere ↔ Valvettithurai
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Point Calimere ↔ Valvettithurai: 61.5 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 4 crossings by swimmers from 1 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.