From 13 July 2010 to 20 April 2011 Erden Eruç set four Guinness World Records for rowing on the Indian Ocean as part of his successful first solo human-powered circumnavigation, becoming the first person to row from mainland Australia to mainland Africa, completing the greatest distance rowed on the Indian Ocean from mainland Australia to Madagascar and across the Mozambique Channel to mainland Africaand the greatest distance rowed solo as well as the greatest distance rowed non-stop on the Indian Ocean from Australia to Madagascar.