Most people in a team to row the Arctic Ocean Open Waters south to north

Most people in a team to row the Arctic Ocean Open Waters south to north
Who
Fiann Paul, Tathagata Roy, Jeff Willis, Carlo Facchino, Tor Wigum
What
5 people
Where
Norway ()
When

The most people in a team to row the Arctic Ocean Open Waters south to north is five, 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) from Tromsø to Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, 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.