Andrew McAuley

McAuley's second attempt began on 11 January 2007 and ended on 12 February, when the search for his missing body was called off following the recovery of his partly flooded kayak on 10 February about 30 nmi (56 km) short of his destination, Milford Sound.

In December 2006, McAuley's first attempt to cross the Tasman Sea in a standard one-man kayak was aborted after one night due to trouble keeping warm inside the cockpit.

In 2003, he made the first nonstop kayak crossing of the Bass Strait. In 2004 he kayaked across the Gulf of Carpentaria. In 2006, he led an expedition in the Australian Antarctic Territory where they paddled over 800 km within the Antarctic Circle.

Andrew McAuley (born 7 August 1968; presumed dead 9–12 February 2007) was an Australian mountaineer and sea kayaker. He is presumed to have died following his disappearance at sea while attempting to kayak 1600 km (994 mi) across the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand in February 2007.

McAuley was born in Goulburn, New South Wales, on 7 August 1968. He attended Anglican Church Grammar School in East Brisbane and finished Year Twelve in 1984. He was awarded Adventurer of the Year in 2005 by the Australian Geographic Society.