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3 unusual facts about David Scott Cowper


David Scott Cowper

On 6 September 2009, he was docked in Cambridge Bay, halfway through the Northwest Passage, and on 24 September he sailed into Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians, after completing the passage single-handed for the third time.

On 14 July 1986, he departed from Newcastle to make his way across the North Atlantic up the west coast of Greenland to enter Lancaster Sound, eventually reaching Fort Ross at the east end of Bellot Strait.

Two other individuals, Arved Fuchs and Oliver Pitras, have done it twice as part of a crew.



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