The complete expedition record.
79 catalogued expeditions, oldest first. Each links to a full account.
Rob Roy - Thames, English Channel, European rivers
Atlantic - First recorded crossing in a sea kayak
Germany to Australia - 30,000 miles, seven years
Atlantic - 72 days in a Klepper
Sumatra - retracing Operation Rimau
Great Britain - first documented attempt
Chile - Punta Arenas to Puerto Montt
Norway - Bodo to Nordkapp, 480 miles
North Sea - first attempt (failed), second (successful)
Cape Horn - first successful circumnavigation
Iceland - first circumnavigation
Caribbean - Klepper double, 8 months
New Zealand South Island - first solo circumnavigation
Aleutian Islands - Dutch Harbor to Nikolski
Tasmania - first sea kayak circumnavigation
New Zealand North Island + Cook Strait + Stewart Island
NW Norway - first Moskenstraumen (Maelstrom) crossing
Great Britain - first kayak circumnavigation
Baffin Island to Labrador
Australia - first solo kayak circumnavigation
Queen Charlotte Islands - first solo circumnavigation
Japan - first solo circumnavigation
Hawaiian Islands - 1,200-mile circumnavigation
UK & Ireland - first mainland circumnavigation
Great Britain - first solo circumnavigation
California to Hawaii - 2,200-mile Pacific solo
Bering Strait - 'The Everest of the Canoeing World'
Alaska - first solo circumnavigation
Spitsbergen - 1,300km unsupported
Grenada to Puerto Rico
Northwest Passage - 3,000-mile kayak and sled journey
BC to BC (Baja) - 1,600 miles wearing an artificial leg
Baja Pacific - San Diego to Cabo San Lucas
Sea of Cortez solo - 850 miles
Great Britain in double kayak - one partially sighted
Around the Sharp End - SW England 413 miles in 9 days
East Baja - San Felipe to Cabo San Lucas
New Caledonia - first kayak circumnavigation
Greenland - first circumnavigation
South-West Greenland 1998
Mexico to Panama - both coasts (book forthcoming)
Aleutians - Islands of the Four Mountains
Easter Island circumnavigation
West Greenland 1999
Japan to Alaska via Kurils and Kamchatka
South Shetland Islands - Nelson Island circumnavigation
Atlantic west-to-east - first crossing the hard way
Sea America Expedition - Washington to Maine
Antarctic Peninsular - first to cross the Antarctic Circle
Malaysia to Thailand 2001-02
Southern Andes - sea kayak / mountaineering combo
Bass Strait - first non-stop direct crossing
Gulf of Carpentaria - 530km in 7 days
UK & Ireland - first solo circumnavigation
Japan - full circumnavigation of four main islands
South Georgia Island - competing British and Kiwi teams
USA - 18,200km circumnavigation by kayak and bicycle
Iceland - first solo circumnavigation
Tasman Sea attempt - tragic loss
Iceland - fastest circumnavigation
Tasman Sea - first kayak expedition crossing
Newfoundland - fastest circumnavigation
East Greenland - Isortoq to Narsaq
Madagascar - first circumnavigation
Scotland to Faroes - Butt of Lewis to Faroes
Australia - second person ever to circumnavigate
Falkland Islands - first recorded circumnavigation
Ellesmere Island - first circumnavigation
Ireland - 25-day circumnavigation in a Taran
Great Britain - 72-day record (and Leach's 67-day reply)
New Zealand - second person ever, youngest, record time
All five Great Lakes in one calendar year
BGLE 80th Anniversary - Antarctic Peninsula
The Great Loop - North America fundraiser
Solo Mozambique coast - 2,500 km
North American Odyssey
Sea Kayak Brasil Expedition
South America - all of it
Kayak for Charity - Malta
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