GIRL SWIMS BALTIC
FORTY MILES COVERED
(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) COPENHAGEN, July 29. Jenny Kammersgaard, aged 17 years, swam from Gedser to Warnemunde, a distance of 27 miles, and was the first person to swim the Baltic. Her time was 40 hours 2G minutes. Owing to the wind and currents she actually swam 40 miles.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19697, 1 August 1938, Page 8
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56GIRL SWIMS BALTIC Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19697, 1 August 1938, Page 8
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