Janice "Jan" Meek FRGS (formerly Cooper and Byles, born 1944) is a British adventurer and ocean rower.
[1] Meek successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean unsupported in a 23-foot (7.0 m) wooden rowing boat in 101 days with her son, Daniel Byles.
Meek has owned and run several restaurants, including De Courceys in South Wales, and has been a wedding organiser and events manager.
[2] Meek and her son, Daniel, participated in the first ocean rowing race and rowed 3,044 nautical miles (5,637 km) from Tenerife to Barbados.
[3] In 2007, she and her son walked and skied 350 miles (560 km) from Resolute, Nunavut to the Magnetic North Pole in 20 days and 5 hours.