Sylvia Cook
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Sylvia Cook is a British ocean rower and adventurer who, on 22 April 1972, became the first person to row the Pacific Ocean, in tandem with John Fairfax.[1] With this accomplishment she became the first woman to row any ocean.[2] The journey took 363 days at sea from San Francisco to Australia.
Cook was born to a middle-class family, the daughter of a teacher and a secretary.[3]
