First row of the Barents Sea

According to Official Guinness Records,

The first recorded row of the Barents Sea on the Arctic Ocean Open Waters is by Fiann Paul (Iceland), Tathagata Roy (India), Jeff Willis (UK), Carlo Facchino (USA) and Tor Wigum (Norway), who rowed 600 miles (965 km;521 nautical miles) south to north from Tromsø to Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway (via Hornsund, Svalbard), in 9 days 23 hr 26 min between 20 and 30 July 2017 on board Polar Row.The definition of "Rows on the Arctic Ocean Open Waters" applies only to pure rowing expeditions across major water basins above the Polar Circle from land to land, excluding any use of sail, paddling on kayaks or canoes, as well as rows around islands, within archipelagos and coastal rows, i.e., within the vicinity of land and with the possibility to get ashore.

For a complete list of 2017 records, please visit 2017 Guinness Records in Norway.

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