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Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz

1936 - 2021

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Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz (15 July 1936 – 13 June 2021) was a Polish naval engineer and sailor. She was the first woman to have sailed single-handed (i.e. solo) around the world, repeating the accomplishment of Joshua Slocum.She sailed from the Canary Islands on 28 March 1976 and completed her solo circumnavigation near the Cape Verde Islands on 20 March 1978, having covered approximately 28,696 nautical miles (53,133 km) over the course of 723 days. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz is the 444th most popular explorer (up from 450th in 2019), the 1,118th most popular biography from Poland (down from 1,117th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz ranks 444 out of 498. Before her are Mikhail Somov, Vassili Poyarkov, Aeneas Mackintosh, Grigory Grum-Grshimailo, Boyd Alexander, and Georgy Ushakov. After her are Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, Frans Blom, John Gardner Wilkinson, Valerian Albanov, Matthew Henson, and Jan Carstenszoon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz ranks 449. Before her are Aleksei Mamykin, Ádám Bodor, Paula Marosi, Sissy Schwarz, Andrzej Zieliński, and Robert May, Baron May of Oxford. After her are Taisia Chenchik, Manfred Stolpe, Lane Smith, Gerald Guralnik, Dmitri Anosov, and Zhong Nanshan. Among people deceased in 2021, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz ranks 502. Before her are Evgeny Sveshnikov, Andrzej Zieliński, Dorothy Manley, Marco Maciel, Bonfoh Abass, and Gabriel Núñez. After her are Monte Hellman, Vladimir Kiselyov, Sarah Harding, Chris Dickerson, Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei, and Michael K. Williams.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz ranks 1,118 out of 1,694. Before her are Zygmunt Maszczyk (1945), Andrzej Zieliński (1936), Christoph Hein (1944), Dieter Kottysch (1943), Wanda Wiłkomirska (1929), and Władysław Broniewski (1897). After her are Manfred Stolpe (1936), Arkadiusz Milik (1994), Kazimierz Paździor (1935), Adam Darski (1977), Olga Jackowska (1951), and Erich Hecke (1887).

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Among EXPLORERS In Poland

Among explorers born in Poland, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz ranks 6. Before her are Emin Pasha (1840), Otto Finsch (1839), Gustav Adolf von Götzen (1866), Theodor Kotschy (1813), and Paweł Strzelecki (1797). After her are Marek Kamiński (1964).

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