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Harbour swim, 2010

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Harbour swim, 2010

Competitors enter the water at the start of the Auckland Harbour Crossing, one of the open-water swims in the State Ocean Swim Series in November 2010. In 2012 the six-event series was organised by an events company with private sponsorship, and attracted large fields.

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John McBeth, Swimming – Swimming for recreation and sport, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/40201/harbour-swim-2010 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by John McBeth, published 30 November 2012, updated 27 January 2015.