MOSCOW, October 30. /TASS/. Russian survivalist, voyager and aerial and marine explorer Fyodor Konyukhov has said he will be making an average 24,000 rowing strokes a day to circle the globe. He was speaking ahead of his new ambitious voyage slated to begin in New Zealand in November.

"It all depends on the weather. On some days I make 22,000 strokes a day, and on others, 26,000. The average rate is 24,000," he told a TASS news conference on Tuesday.

Konyukhov said he was to sail past Cape Horn - the southernmost extremity of Tierra del Fuego - and cross the Southern Ocean, which comprises the southernmost waters of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans and their tributary seas surrounding Antarctica.

So far Konyukhov has accomplished five global voyages and crossed the Atlantic seventeen times (once in a rowing boat). Konyukhov is the first Russian to have been to seven highest peaks in six parts of the world, and also the South and North poles.