World’s youngest person ever to sail solo around the world: Jessica Watson

Posted By Largest-smallest on Aug 18, 2015

Jessica Watson is a young woman from Australia who, at the age of 16, became the youngest person ever to sail around the world. After departing from Sydney, the capital of her native land, Australia, Jessica sailed in a north-easterly direction. She crossed the equator of the globe while sailing through the Pacific, before making the crossing through first the Atlantic, and then the Indian Oceans. After a voyage that lasted nearly...