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Canadian author and adventurer

Colin Angus is a Canadian author and adventurer who is the first person to make a self-propelled global circumnavigation.

Julie Angus is a Canadian rower, adventurer, writer, cyclist and entrepreneur, married to the explorer Colin Angus.

Colin Angus and Julie Wafaei “My parents tried to raise me right,” says Julie, who was born in Toronto but moved around a lot as a child.

Julie Angus (née Wafaei, born ) is a Canadian rower, adventurer, writer, cyclist and entrepreneur, married to the explorer Colin Angus.

Julie Angus (née Wafaei, born ) is a Canadian rower, adventurer, writer, cyclist, and entrepreneur, married to the explorer Colin Angus.

Four weeks earlier, he and his fiancée, Julie Wafaei, 32, had launched a seaworthy rowboat from Lisbon, Portugal, bound for Miami.

Due to varying definitions of the term "circumnavigation", debate has arisen as to whether or not the route travelled fulfilled the strictest criteria (for further discussion, see World Circumnavigation). As part of the circumnavigation, Angus and his then fiancé Julie Wafaei (now Julie Angus) 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 (the world's fifth longest 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 Midd