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Robyn Wuth

Solo rower reaches Aust after eight months in Pacific

Australian solo rower Michelle Lee is already thinking about her next ocean adventure. Photo: AAP

After almost eight months as a tiny spec in the middle of the ocean Australian endurance rower Michelle Lee arrived in Port Douglas to become the first woman to row solo across the Pacific Ocean.

The 50-year-old massage therapist from Kellyville in northwest Sydney spent an epic 237 days at sea rowing unassisted from the coast of Ensenada in Mexico to far north Queensland.

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