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Eryngium maritimum
Sea holly in bloom at Pointe de la Torche in the Bigouden region, Brittany. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- Sea holly in bloom at Pointe de la Torche in the Bigouden region, Brittany
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- original
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- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
La Torche
How work, access and surfing shaped La Torche.
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Pointe de la Torche (Breton: Beg an Dorchenn) is a promontory at the southeastern end of the Baie d'Audierne in the commune of Plomeur in the Bigouden region of Finistère, France.
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1929
Work at the water’s edge
It was declared a historic monument in 1929.
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ACCESS CHANGES
The shore becomes reachable
One blockhouse or pillbox was used as a squat by the homeless until the 1980s and is now a rescue station.
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Surfing Pointe de la Torche 01
Surfer on the beach at Pointe de la Torche, Bretagne. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- Surfer on the beach at Pointe de la Torche, Bretagne
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ORGANISED SPORT
Surfing reads the same coast differently
The surf and currents sometimes make the sea around it very dangerous.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
La Torche is recorded at 47.839° N, 4.349° 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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Eryngium maritimum
Sea holly in bloom at Pointe de la Torche in the Bigouden region, Brittany. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Sea holly in bloom at Pointe de la Torche in the Bigouden region, Brittany
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
TODAY
La Torche now
It attracts many surfers, body boarders, kitesurfers, wind-surfers, waveskiers and land yachters and has been the site of several championships.
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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.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Eryngium maritimum
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Surfing Pointe de la Torche 01
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Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Pointe de la Torche overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.