<Tr> <Th> Parent (s) </Th> <Td> Julie Watson Roger Watson </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> Official website </Td> </Tr> <P> Jessica Watson, OAM (born 18 May 1993) is an Australian sailor who was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for completing 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 . </P> <P> Watson was born in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia . 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 . 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 . 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 . </P>

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