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Surfing Hookipa Beach Maui Hawaii
Surfing Hookipa Beach Maui Hawaii. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Surfing Hookipa Beach Maui Hawaii
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Hookipa
How work, access and surfing shaped Hookipa.
Scroll to follow the shoreline through time
Hoʻokipa is a beach on the north shore of Maui, Hawaii, renowned as one of the best windsurfing sites in the world.
Sources for this chapter
BEFORE TOURISM
Before the surf map
The linked local overview does not preserve a clear account of Hookipa before modern tourism.
This edition leaves that part of the timeline open rather than mistaking the first surviving sporting reference for the beginning of the place.
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ACCESS CHANGES
The shore becomes reachable
Hoʻokipa Beach Park is located on Maui's North Shore alongside the Hana Highway.
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MAUI COUNTY'S HOOKIPA PARK, WHERE SURFING IS A POPULAR SPORT TOWNS OF KAHULUI AND WAILUKU IN BACKGROUND - NARA - 554065
MAUI COUNTY'S HOOKIPA PARK, WHERE SURFING IS A POPULAR SPORT TOWNS OF KAHULUI AND WAILUKU IN BACKGROUND. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- MAUI COUNTY'S HOOKIPA PARK, WHERE SURFING IS A POPULAR SPORT TOWNS OF KAHULUI AND WAILUKU IN BACKGROUND
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
ORGANISED SPORT
Surfing reads the same coast differently
Hoʻokipa became an international centre for windsurfing competition, while surfers continued to share the same reef and shoreline.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Hookipa is recorded at 20.937° N, 156.361° W. A surf map fixes a name to one stretch of moving water, but the place changes with tide, swell direction, wind and the shape of the seabed.
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Surfing Hookipa Beach Maui Hawaii
Surfing Hookipa Beach Maui Hawaii. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Surfing Hookipa Beach Maui Hawaii
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
TODAY
Hookipa now
It is the most popular break for windsurfing, and generally breaks as a right.
THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
Sources for this chapter
Artefacts in order of appearance
Surfing Hookipa Beach Maui Hawaii
AOD.US.HOOKIPA.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
MAUI COUNTY'S HOOKIPA PARK, WHERE SURFING IS A POPULAR SPORT TOWNS OF KAHULUI AND WAILUKU IN BACKGROUND - NARA - 554065
AOD.US.HOOKIPA.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Editorial record
Full US Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Hoʻokipa overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.