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Jessica Watson
Jessica Watson, OAM (born 18 May 1993) is an Australian sailor who completed a southern hemisphere solo circumnavigation at the age of 16.
Departing Sydney on 18 October 2009, Watson headed north-east crossing the equator in the Pacific Ocean before crossing the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. She returned to Sydney on 15 May 2010, three days before her 17th birthday. The voyage was shorter than the required 21,600 nautical miles to be considered a global circumnavigation, and Watson never claimed the voyage to be an attempt at such, preferring the less formal term 'around the world'. In recognition of her achievement Watson was named the 2011 Young Australian of the Year, and the following year was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia. She currently resides in Buderim, Queensland.
==Early life==
Watson was born on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.〔("About Jessica and her mission" ), ''Jessica Watson''. Retrieved 22 June 2010.〕 The second of four children of New Zealander couple Roger and Julie Watson, who moved to Australia in 1987, she has dual Australian and New Zealander citizenship.〔(Jessica Watson blog entry ) – she states she has both Australian and New Zealand passports: only New Zealand citizens are entitled to be issued New Zealand passports.〕 She has an older sister (Emily) and younger brother and sister (Tom and Hannah). All four took sailing lessons as children, and the family went on to live on board a 16-metre cabin cruiser for five years, the children being home schooled via distance learning. Later they lived on a purpose-built double decker bus for some time.〔(What were her parents thinking? ) by Mike Colman, ''The Courier-Mail'', 13 June 2009.〕 When Watson was eleven and they were still living on the boat, her mother read Jesse Martin's book ''Lionheart: A Journey of the Human Spirit'' to the children as a bedtime story. This led to Watson forming the ambition, at age twelve, to sail around the world too.〔〔(Solo sailor Jessica Watson battles dyslexia ) Kathleen Donaghey, ''The Sunday Mail (Qld)'', 31 January 2010.〕
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