• Rowing Across the Atlantic (French: La Traversée de l'Atlantique à la rame) is a 1978 French animated short film directed by Jean-François Laguionie. The...
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  • Ocean rowing is the sport of rowing across oceans. Some ocean rowing boats can hold as many as fourteen rowers; however, the most common ocean rowboats...
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  • his military career, some of Fox's bigger adventures include rowing across the Atlantic Ocean from Lagos, Portugal to Macuro, Venezuela in 2016 with four...
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    climaxing with the now famous La Traversée de l'Atlantique à la rame (Rowing across the Atlantic) (1978), which won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1978 Cannes...
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  • The Atlantic Rowing Race is an ocean rowing race from the Canary Islands to the West Indies, a distance of approximately 2,550 nm (2,930 statute miles...
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    James Ketchell (category Circumnavigators of the globe)
    Ketchell became the first person to complete the triathlon of rowing across the Atlantic Ocean, summiting Mount Everest and cycling around the world. On 22...
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    Mark Beaumont (cyclist) (category Circumnavigators of the globe)
    team in an attempt to break the world record for rowing across the Atlantic Ocean. After 27 days and over 2,000 miles into the expedition, they capsized...
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  • Ocean Rowing Society International (ORSI) (prior to 2006 known as ORS), is the governing body for international ocean rowing and official adjudicator of...
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  • Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo (category Norwegian emigrants to the United States)
    Norwegian-Americans who in 1896 became the first people ever to row across an ocean. Their time record for rowing the North Atlantic Ocean was not broken for 114...
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  • and cargo across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe or Africa and the Americas. The majority of passenger traffic is across the North Atlantic between Western...
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    Maud Fontenoy (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    sailor known for her rowings across the Atlantic (2003) and Pacific (2005) oceans. Most recently, she completed a sailing trip around the Antarctic alone,...
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  • so. It took him 106 days; which is a record for solo rowing across the Atlantic. He arrived at the shores of Antigua on 14 June 2007. In July 2004, he...
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    The Ottawa International Animation Festival is an annual animated film and media festival that takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The OIAF was founded...
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    Dan Byles (category Alumni of the University of Leeds)
    In rowing across the Atlantic, the pair became the first mother and son team to row any ocean. In October 2008, Byles became the main sponsor of the Bedworth...
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  • Rowdy Ranganna (1968) Rowdy Rathore (2012) The Rowdyman (1972) Rowing Across the Atlantic (1978) Rowing with the Wind (1988) Roxanne (1987) Roxanne Roxanne...
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  • The 4th César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, honoured the best French films of 1978 and took place on 3...
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    Fiann Paul (category Explorers of the Arctic)
    human-powered transit (by rowing) across the Drake Passage, and the first human-powered expedition on the Southern Ocean. As of 2020, he is the first and only person...
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  • The Short Film Palme d'Or (French: Palme d'Or du court métrage) is the highest prize given to a short film at the Cannes Film Festival. Since the creation...
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    Roz Savage (category Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies)
    she completed the first leg by finishing the Atlantic Rowing Race as the only solo female competitor, taking 103 days to complete the crossing. This...
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  • It won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. After the opening...
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    Coastal and offshore rowing is a rowing sport performed at sea. In North America, this sport is often called open water rowing. Due to conditions at sea...
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    3 days outside the World Record. The crew also included the youngest ever person to complete the row across the Atlantic, 19 when the race began, and...
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  • thirds of the way across the route. Mick worked for the Atlantic Rowing Race organisers as a rowing consultant and safety skipper for the 2005. It was...
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  • Bayo various stories about sailing, which gives Bayo the fantasy of rowing across the Atlantic Ocean to Portugal. When Phillip visits Bayo and Sharon...
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    the first person to row across the Atlantic Ocean in both directions. Allum's cousin, Geoff Allum, initially thought of the idea to row solo across the...
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  • Naomi Hoogesteger (category World Rowing template using numeric ID)
    com". World Rowing. Retrieved 4 September 2018. "Hallin Marine ocean rowing record". Ocean Rowing. Retrieved 4 September 2018. "Atlantic rowers reveal...
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    across land and rowing across water, completing his journey in May 2006. The expedition began with partner Tim Harvey. However, in Siberia the pair parted...
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  • McClean's historic single-handed rowing across the Atlantic, a feat for which Tom still holds the world speed record. On the Daily Mail he was a feature writer...
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  • Janice Meek (category Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society)
    took part in the first Atlantic Rowing Race, the Port St. Charles Barbados Atlantic Rowing Race. Meek successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean unsupported...
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  • simultaneous overall ocean rowing speed records on different oceans". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 2018-05-26. "ocean rowing across Atlantic speed record". www...
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