Tori Murden

Tori Murden

Tori Murden is the first woman to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone. She completed the journey on December 3, 1999.

Thirty-six years old at the time [ [http://www.nols.edu/alumni/leader/00winter/murdentsidebar.shtml NOLS - The Leader: ] ] , she rowed for eighty-one days, traveling 4,767 kilometres (2,962 miles), starting from the Canary Islands and finishing at Guadeloupe.

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