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Abby Sunderland

American sailor (born 1993)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Abigail Jillian Sunderland is an American sailor who, in 2010, attempted to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.

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The public source identifies “Abby Sunderland” as american sailor (born 1993). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Abby, Sunderland and American.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Abby, Sunderland and American providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Abby Sunderland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.