Fastest circumnavigation swim around Pitcairn Island
- Who
- Alexander Kostich
- What
- 2:37:45 hour(s):minute(s):second(s)
- Where
- Pitcairn
- When
- 04 May 2019
The fastest circumnavigation swim around Pitcairn Island under World Open Water Swimming Association regulations is 2 hours 37 minutes 45 seconds over 9.8 kilometres (6 miles), achieved by Alexander Kostich (USA) on 4 May 2019. Pitcairn Island is a British Overseas Territory in the South Pacific Ocean.
The total swimming distance was 10.36 kilometres (6.43 miles) performed in relentlessly turbulent conditions.
Pitcairn was Kostich’s fourth circumnavigation swim of his career en route to a Circumnavigation Seven. He has already completed solo circumnavigation swims around Naples Island in Long Beach, California, USA, in 2017; around Bora Bora in French Polynesia in 2013; and a 20.1-kilometre (12.4-mile) swim around Key West in Florida, USA (in 1998 and 1999).