Martin Strel
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Martin Strel, is a Slovenian long-distance swimmer, an elite endurance athlete, best known for swimming the entire length of various rivers. Strel holds successive Guinness World Records for swimming
Martin Strel-Big River Man
Amazon River
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The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the second-longest or longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile.
Martin Strel
…length of various rivers. Strel holds successive Guinness World Records for swimming the Danube river, the Mississippi River, the Yangtze River, and the Amazon River. His motto is "swimming for peace, friendship and clean waters." Strel was born in the town of Mokronog, in the Slovenian region of Lower Carniola…
Old drawing (from 1879) of Arapaima fishing at the Amazon River. The arapaima has been on Earth for at least 23 million years.
Amazon tributaries near Manaus
Amazonas state
Amazon Theatre opera house in Manaus built in 1896 during the rubber boom