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Australia II was designed by Ben Lexcen, built by Steve Ward, owned by Alan Bond and skippered by John Bertrand. [2] Lexcen's Australia II design featured a reduced waterline length and a short chord winged keel which gave the boat a significant advantage in manoeuvrability and heeling moment (lower ballast centre of gravity) but it was a significant disadvantage in choppy seas.
In 1970, Tholstrup became the first person to circumnavigate the Australian continent in an open power boat. [1] His record, set between May and August 1970, starting and ending in Sydney, was all the more remarkable for having been achieved in an open 5.2 meters (17 feet) boat, a standard Caribbean Cougar runabout, [2] which he named Tom Thumb.
Andrew McAuley (born 7 August 1968; presumed dead 9–12 February 2007) was an Australian mountaineer and sea kayaker.He is presumed to have died following his disappearance at sea while attempting to kayak 1600 km (994 mi) across the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand in February 2007.
Oskar Speck (4 March 1907 – 28 March 1993) was a German canoeist who kayaked from Germany to Australia. [1] He departed from Ulm, Germany in 1932 to seek work due to being an unemployed electrical contractor in Hamburg.
Smith was named Australian Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2016. [2] Smith took off from Melbourne, Australia in his SeaRey aircraft named Southern Sun in April 2015, intending to retrace the historic 1938 Sydney to London route of the Qantas Empire Flying Boat service. He reached London 8 weeks later, but did not receive much media attention.
Birtles in Arnhem Land. Francis Edwin Birtles (7 November 1881 in Fitzroy, Victoria – 1 July 1941 in Croydon, New South Wales [1]) was an Australian adventurer, photographer, cyclist, and filmmaker, who set many long-distance cycling and driving records, including becoming in 1927 the first man to drive a car from England to Australia.
On 2 May 2018, Terra Roam became the first non-binary adventurer to walk 17,200 km solo unsupported around Australia. [78] It took 4 years in sections divided between seasons and injuries. The first section was a 1,250 km "warm up" lap around Tasmania carrying a backpack.
Mangels was born in the Netherlands on 16 November 1948. [2] His father Johannes (Jos) was a leather tanner. The family moved to Australia in 1955 where they settled in Adelaide, South Australia. After about eighteen months in Australia his parents separated. [2] His mother Adrianna (Sjann) remarried but died when he was fifteen.