SYDNEY: An Australian teen who spent seven months at sea has become the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and un assisted around the world.Sixteen-year-old Jessica Watson sailed into Sydney Harbour on Saturday after completing a 23,000 nautical mile voyage.
Thousands lined the harbor to cheer on the teen as she cruised into port in her pink 34-foot (10-meter) yacht. She will set foot on land for the first time in 210 days when she docks at the Opera House.
Watson battled 40-foot (12-meter) waves and multiple knockdowns during her journey, which took her northeast through the South Pacific and across the equator, south to Cape Horn at the tip of South America, across the Atlantic Ocean to South Africa, through the Indian Ocean and around southern Australia.
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