A British adventurer has completed a pedal-powered crossing of the Pacific Ocean.

Jason Lewis, who's attempting to travel round the globe by human power, arrived in Australia after a ten-thousand-kilometre voyage from San Francisco.

His eight-metre boat, Moksha, arrived in Port Douglas on the Queensland coast after being towed through the Great Barrier Reef, where winds and tides threatened to blow it off course.

Mr Lewis said that after spending six months of his life on the Pacific, he realised that the ocean was not a place for human beings.

He set out from London in 1994, cycled across the rest of Europe, then crossed the Atlantic in a pedal boat, and roller-bladed across North America. At one point he was laid up for nine months with two broken legs after a collision with a car.

Mr Lewis plans to roller-blade and cycle across Australia, before heading to Indonesia, and then back to Britain, via Asia and Africa.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service