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South Georgia
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November & December 2005 |
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Pete Bray, Nigel Dennis, Hadas Feldman and Jeff Allen set out from the old whaling port of Grytviken on November 17th to paddle around South Georgia. They successfully completed the 675 km circumnavigation on December 1st. The island of 5600 square kilometers lies 1300 km south-east of the Falkland Islands. Listen to an
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Circumnavigation of Great Britain
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May 2005 |
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Barry Shaw, Phil Clegg and Harry Whelan started their clockwise circumnavigation of Great Britain on 11 May 2005 from Cemaes Bay on Anglesey. Their expedition linked in with the ExpedSchools initiative for better food for kids on schools. On July 29th they completed their circumnavigation. It took them 80 days; a new record! Listen to an
interview
of Barry Shaw by Simon Willis. An article by Phil Clegg was published in the February 2007 (#165) issue of BCU Canoe Focus.
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Circumnavigation of Tasmania
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November 2004 |
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Gemma Rawlings, Justine Curgenven and Trys Morris swapped wintry Wales for summer sun and circumnavigated Tasmania, a distance of approximately 1500 km. They started on November 7th at Pirates Bay and finished on December 13th. The expedition also appeared on the
BBC website. An article was published in the December 2006 issue of
Sea Kayaker Magazine. A further article was published in the July 2007 issue of Ocean Paddler Magazine.
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Circumnavigation of Japan
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February & August 2004 |
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More than 2000 isles strung out of the tropical island of Kyushu in the south, to the freezing island of Hokkaido, in the north. A country where it is said "you can travel a thousand years in a day".
Hadas Feldman and Jeff Allen completed the second part of their circumnavigation of Japan on November 3rd 2004.
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Circumnavigation of Ireland
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June 2004 |
| Simon Osborne continued his 'Kayaking for Cancer' project, fundraising for the Leukaemia Research Fund. He started on June 20th by crossing the Irish Sea from Holyhead. Simon finished on August 6th.
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Circumnavigation of Great Britain & Ireland
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April 2004 |
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Fiona Whitehead started her 4300 km trip from Portsmouth on April 9th. The trip took-in five nations, two crossings of the Irish Sea, paddling past the tallest cliffs in Europe and paddling some of the world's strongest tides. After 140 days, she finished in Portsmouth on August 26th.
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Around the Netherlands by sea kayak
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August 2003 |
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Axel Schoevers and Nico Middelkoop paddled a sea kayak along the North Sea coast and borders of the Netherlands with Belgium and Germany, on the sea and on inland waterways. This trip of 1241 km distance took 28 days to complete. An article appeared in the 2003/4 issue of "NKB Kanosport".
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Volcanic Coast Kamchatka
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June 2003 |
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Justine Curgenven and Hadas Feldman where in virtually unexplored territory. They started on June 16th from Petropavlovsk. Their destination: Ust Kamchatsk, 480 km to the north where they arrived on July 4th. Filmed for National Geographic and published in the February 2005 issue of Sea Kayaker Magazine.
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Circumnavigation of Newfoundland
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May 2003 |
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The 9500 km of coastline of the Canadian island of Newfoundland affords stunning scenery with sparkling fjords, majestic mountains and towering cliffs. Pete Bray had to paddle an average of 48 km a day for three months to complete the challenge. He started in Quidi Vidi on May 26th and returned on September 2nd.
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Circumnavigation of Iceland
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May 2003 |
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Chris Duff, Shawna Franklin and Leon Sommé left May 19th from Neskaupstadur (near Seydisfjörd) on the East Coast in an attempt to circumnavigate the entire nation in less than four month. On August 8th they were all the way around and back with friends in Nekaupstatdur.
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Iceland West Fjords
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August 2002 |
| The northwest corner of Iceland, with its striking coastline of sheer, jagged cliffs, offered Justine Curgenven a challenging opportunity for adventure and self-discovery. She wrote an article about this one woman's expedition in the June 2003 issue of
Sea Kayaker Magazine.
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Kayaking for Cancer
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May 2002 |
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On 11th May 2002, Simon Osborne set off on his mission to kayak around the coastline of Great Britain. In memory of his brother Mark, who died of leukaemia, he raised a lot of money for the Leukaemia Research Fund. He completed his epic voyage on August 31st.
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Circumnavigation of Wales
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July 2001 |
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Justine Curgenven and Fiona Whitehead had just three weeks, starting on July 16th, to power themselves around the 950 km circuit. Justine published an
article about this adventure.
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North Atlantic Kayak Challenge
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June 2001 |
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On his first attempt in June 2000, disaster struck. On June 22nd, Pete Bray set out from St. John's harbour and finished this record-breaking crossing on September 5th. An article appeared in the February 2002 issue of
Sea Kayaker Magazine. Peter's achievement against formidable odds is published in the book "Kayak across the Atlantic".
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Antarctica
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2000 |
| An expedition by Stan Chladek, Tom Bergh and Nigel Dennis around Nelson Island located in the South Shetland Islands. This archipelago lies 960 km miles south of Cape Horn and about 45 km west of the north end of the Antarctic peninsula.
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Greenland
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July 2000 |
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Martin Rickard and Pete Jones set out on July 25th to kayak from Ammassaliq travelling approximately 190 km north along the coast to the site where Arctic explorer Gino Watkins established his second base in 1932.
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New Zealand South Island
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December 1999 |
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The Millennial Expedition started on December 5th 1999 from the town of Picton in Cook Strait. After 120 days of solo paddling more than 2700 km, Chris Duff arrived back to Picton on April 16th 2001. He wrote about this adventure in his book 'Southern Exposure'.
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Easter Island
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1999 |
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Stan Chladek and Nigel Dennis took their three-piece Explorers on the airplane and paddled around the exposed coastline of Easter Island. An article about this expedition was published in the June 2000 issue of Sea Kayaker Magazine.
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Trans Global sea kayak expedition
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1999 |
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Trys Morris and Bob Timms set out to paddle from Great Britain to Australia. 2400 km into the journey and eight months later they made it to Greece.
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Cape Horn
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January 1992 |
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Rebecca Ridgway wrote about her adventures leading up to and about rounding 'the Horn' in her book 'Something Amazing'. She now runs
Cape Adventure International
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Circumnavigation of Britain
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May 1980 |
| Nigel Dennis and Paul Caffyn where the first people to paddle around Great Britain in a sea kayak. Their 3600 km journey took them 65 paddling days (85 days in all) to complete.
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