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Playa de Famara on Lanzarote, June 2013
Detail to sand and rocks on the beach Playa de Famara on Lanzarote, the Canary Islands, Spain. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Detail to sand and rocks on the beach Playa de Famara on Lanzarote, the Canary Islands, Spain
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Lanzarote/Famara
How work, access and surfing shaped Lanzarote/Famara.
Scroll to follow the shoreline through time
Famara is the main mountainous massif in the north of the island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.
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BEFORE TOURISM
Before the surf map
The linked local overview does not preserve a clear account of Lanzarote/Famara 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
The surviving overview does not identify one decisive access date for Lanzarote/Famara.
This edition therefore leaves that date open rather than turning gradual change into a false single event.
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December Atlantic Surf Famara Beach Hawaii Smoker - Lanzarote Photography 1988 - panoramio
December Atlantic Surf Famara Beach Hawaii Smoker - Lanzarote Photography 1988. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- December Atlantic Surf Famara Beach Hawaii Smoker - Lanzarote Photography 1988
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
ORGANISED SPORT
Surfing reads the same coast differently
Its orientation towards the Atlantic Ocean makes it suitable for the practice of surfing.
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THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Lanzarote/Famara is recorded at 29.108° N, 13.565° 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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Playa de Famara on Lanzarote, June 2013
Detail to sand and rocks on the beach Playa de Famara on Lanzarote, the Canary Islands, Spain. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Detail to sand and rocks on the beach Playa de Famara on Lanzarote, the Canary Islands, Spain
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
TODAY
Lanzarote/Famara now
A popular seaside resort, Caleta de Famara, has been built here.
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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
Playa de Famara on Lanzarote, June 2013
AOD.EU.LANZAROTE-FAMARA.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
December Atlantic Surf Famara Beach Hawaii Smoker - Lanzarote Photography 1988 - panoramio
AOD.EU.LANZAROTE-FAMARA.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Famara overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.