Brit grows first South Pacific

The 53-year-old Briton John Beeden is the first person successfully non-stop to row across the Pacific.

After the 6100 mile trip to Cairns in northeast Australia, he tweeted: 10. Arrived at 00 pm local time. Happy to be back on land and eat some ginger biscuits. He added, blown to be the great reception which was prepared for him. Beeden: Wow, it's over. To be the first person to have reached something of this scale truly incredible and I still have not processed.

The Sheffield-derived Beeden, who now lives in Canada, grew four years ago, once the Atlantic. He had hoped his crossing of the Pacific Ocean to finish in less than 209 days, but he was hampered several times by bad weather.