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Kay Cottee

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Australian sailor (born 1954)

Australia Historical FiguresBorn 1954 · age 72

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Momentum19.9

Languages7

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Kay Cottee is an Australian sailor, who was the first woman to perform a single-handed, non-stop and unassisted circumnavigation of the world. She performed this feat in 1988 in her 37 feet (11 m) yacht Blackmores First Lady, taking 189 days.

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The yacht Blackmores First Lady

Awards 5

2001Victorian Honour Roll of Women

2001Centenary Medal

2000Australian Sports Medal

1989Officer of the Order of Australia

1988Australian of the Year

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Elizabeth II94.2

Napoleon93.5

Alexander the Great92.7

Christopher Columbus91.8

Genghis Khan88.4

Ferdinand Magellan86.9

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