Round Iceland

Round Iceland

Round Iceland is an initiative to establish an absolute sailing speed record around the island of Iceland in the north Atlantic. Currently the record has been set only once and stands at 10 days and 7 hours. It was set by Valberg Lárusson and his crew on the sailing boat "Snælda" in May 2004.


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