Jessica Watson
Australian sailor · Australia · Historical Figures · Born 1993 · age 33
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Something wrong?Jessica Rose Watson is an Australian sailor who attempted a solo circumnavigation at the age of 16 from 18 October 2009 to 15 May 2010.
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![Watson in Laos as part of a program with the World Food Programme (WFP) in 2011. In 2011, she was appointed a WFP Youth Ambassador, a role she still served in as of 2017.[61]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Jessica_in_Laos_3_%2810705783846%29.jpg/500px-Jessica_in_Laos_3_%2810705783846%29.jpg)
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Jessica Rose Watson is an Australian sailor who attempted a solo circumnavigation at the age of 16 from 18 October 2009 to 15 May 2010. Although she circled the planet, she did it in a narrow range of latitudes relatively far from the equator that resulted in her voyage falling short of the distance criterion of 21,600 nautical miles (40,000 km) for a circumnavigation - the equivalent of the circumference of the Earth at the equator - by nearly 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km); Watson was nevertheless named 2011 Young Australian of the Year and awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2012 for "...service to sailing and to youth through the achievement of sailing solo and unassisted around the world, and as a role model for young Australians". As of November 2022, she resides in Melbourne. Netflix produced a film, True Spirit (2023), about Watson's voyage.
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