UPDATED: August 7, 2019.
Correction: The saildrone journey went a distance of 13,670 miles, not nautical miles that was indicated in original text.
![Saildrone 1020 approaches Point Bluff, New Zealand, in stormy conditions after completing the first unmanned circumnavigation of Antarctica in early August 2019. It sailed more than 13,000 miles around the Southern Ocean in 196 days.
(Image credit: Saildrone Inc., with permission.) Saildrone 1020 approaches Point Bluff, New Zealand, in stormy conditions after completing the first unmanned circumnavigation of Antarctica in early August 2019. It sailed more than 13,000 miles around the Southern Ocean in 196 days.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_1275/public/legacy/image/2019/Aug/SD_1020_A_6.jpg?itok=QcLU935Y)
Saildrone 1020 approaches Point Bluff, New Zealand, in stormy conditions after completing the first unmanned circumnavigation of Antarctica in early August 2019. It sailed more than 13,000 miles around the Southern Ocean in 196 days. (Image credit: Saildrone Inc., with permission.)