Youngest person to row the Arctic Ocean Open Waters north to south
- Who
- Tyler Carnevale
- What
- 23:47 year(s):day(s)
- Where
- Norway
- When
- 21 August 2017
The youngest person to row the Arctic Ocean Open Waters north to south is Tyler Carnevale (USA, b. 22 June 1994), who was 23 years 47 days at the start of his 835-mile (1,344-km; 726-nautical-mile) row from Longyearbyen, Svalbard, to Jan Mayen Island, Norway, in a team of six on board Polar Row. The row lasted 13 days 17 hr 30 min from 8 to 21 August 2017.
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.