July 2018 - Scott Donaldson completes the first kayak solo row from Coffs Harbour, Australia to New Plymouth, New Zealand.

Shaun is the son of Colin Quincey, who completed the reverse journey in 1977.

March 2010 - Shaun Quincey completed the solo row from Australia to New Zealand in March 2010.

13 January 2008 - crossing of the Tasman by kayak completed by Justin Jones and James Castrission expedition named Crossing the Ditch.

They rowed to and arrived in Sydney Harbour on 30 December at 8:15 am, having taken 31 days to make the crossing.

30 December 2007 - Four Australians, led by Steven Gates, departed from Hokianga, New Zealand on 29 November.

2167 km were covered in a 55-hour and 12-minute flight. The flight was from Kaitaia on the northern tip of New Zealand to Ten Mile Beach in northern New South Wales, Australia.

24 February 2000 - Dick Smith crossed the Tasman Sea in a hot air balloon.

He took 63 days 7 hours to row his Yorkshire Dory row-boat from Hokianga, New Zealand to Marcus Beach on the Sunshine Coast of Australia.

1977 - Colin Quincey, an England-born New Zealander, made the first successful human-powered trans-Tasman crossing.

Anders Svedlund attempted a Crossing from New Zealand to Australia however, he was over-turned five days after leaving from Auckland's Manukau Harbour and returned to New Zealand.

7 January 1931 - Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.

10 September 1928 - Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and his three-man crew complete the first successful trans-Tasman flight.

10 January 1928 - Moncrieff and Hood vanish without trace during the first trans-Tasman flight attempt.3 February 1908 - first trans-Tasman radio transmission (via HMS Powerful in Tasman Sea).18 February 1876 - The first trans-Tasman submarine communications cable is completed, allowing telegraph communications with the rest of the world.Australia and New Zealand highlighted in green, in the southern hemisphere of the Earth Trans-Tasman events

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