page_title: Colin Angus (explorer)
section_title: Around the World
hierarchical_section_title: Colin Angus (explorer) / Adventures / Around the World
caption_attribution_description: English: Julie and Colin's route from Scotland to Syria via rowboat and bicycle
context_page_description: Colin Angus is a Canadian author and adventurer who is the first person to make a self-propelled global circumnavigation. Due to varying definitions of the term "circumnavigation," debate has arisen as to whether or not the route travelled fulfilled the strictest criteria. As part of the circumnavigation, Angus and his then fiancé Julie Wafaei made the first rowboat crossing of the Atlantic Ocean from mainland Europe to mainland North America, and Wafaei became the first Canadian woman to row across any ocean. Colin and Julie have two sons: Leif, born September, 2010, and Oliver, born June, 2014.
  Other expeditions Angus has completed include the first descent of the Yenisei River; a complete descent of the Amazon River from source to sea; from Scotland to Syria by bicycle and rowboat; and sailing from Spain to the Middle East investigating the domestication of the olive tree.
  Angus has written four books: Lost in Mongolia, Amazon Extreme, Beyond the Horizon, and Rowed Trip. He has co-produced two films for National Geographic Television. These include "Boiling Water and Bullets" covering the Amazon River, as well as a film on the Yenisey River in Mongolia.
context_section_description: Angus traveled around the world using exclusively human power, walking and biking across land and rowing across water, completing his journey in July 2004. The expedition began with partner Tim Harvey. However, in Siberia the pair parted ways due to interpersonal conflict. Harvey continued and eventually circled the planet, but on a longer route than Angus, including Africa and South America . Angus was joined bicycling in Europe by his then fianceé Julie Wafaei, who purchased a rowboat for them to cross the Atlantic. The British adventurer Jason Lewis, claims that Angus' journey was not a circumnavigation, because it did not pass through two antipodal points on the globe, although this is not required by Guinness World Records .
  The ship's log on the Russian research vessel Professor Khromov cite a high-seas rescue in support of the expedition. Angus had to fly to Canada for medical treatment during the expedition, but flew back to Russia to continue from the point he had left beforehand.
caption: Julie and Colin's route from Scotland to Syria via rowboat and bicycle
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