First row of the navigable length of the Amazon River
Who
Mark de Rond , Anton Wright
What
- first
Where
Brazil (Macapá)
When
The first people to row the navigable length of the Amazon River are Mark de Rond (Netherlands) and Anton Wright (UK), who embarked from Nauta in Peru on 13 September 2013 and rowed to Macapá in Brazil, arriving on 15 October 2013. Murilo Reis joined the team for part of the row. The boat was a Woodvale Pairs Class ocean rowing boat made of plywood reinforced with glass fibre and resins.