Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz is a Polish naval engineer and sailor as well as the first woman to have sailed single-handed around the world.
She set sail from the Canary Islands on 28 February 1976, crossing the Atlantic Ocean to Barbados. She then sailed through the Caribbean Sea to the Panama Canal, and hence to the Pacific Ocean. After crossing the Pacific, Chojnowska-Liskiewicz sailed via Tahiti and Fiji to Australia, and then west across the Indian Ocean via Mauritius. After passing the Cape of Good Hope, she sailed north.
Chojnowska-Liskiewicz completed her voyage when she entered the port of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on 21 April 1978. On 18 June 1978, she returned to Poland, where, after a period of relative obscurity, she is again seen as a national hero.
In completing her voyage, Chojnowska-Liskiewicz only narrowly beat Naomi James, who completed her own single-handed circumnavigation on 8 June 1978. In 1988, Kay Cottee of Australia became the first woman to complete a non-stop single-handed circumnavigation.
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