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2018 Praia de Pantín. Galiza-3
Beach of Pantín, Valdoviño, Galicia (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
- Beach of Pantín, Valdoviño, Galicia (Spain)
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- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Pantín
How work, access and surfing shaped Pantín.
Scroll to follow the shoreline through time
The Ferrolterra Pantin Classic is an international surf competition which gathers in a yearly basis all the most remarkable figures in the world of surf, fun, body board and windsurfing at the beach of Pantin in Valdoviño, Ferrolterra, north-western Spain.
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1747
Work at the water’s edge
The saying says, that the sailor Eduardo arrived to the bay in 1747 by sailboat and settled together with his wife.
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ACCESS CHANGES
The shore becomes reachable
The surviving overview does not identify one decisive access date for Pantín.
This edition therefore leaves that date open rather than turning gradual change into a false single event.
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Pantín Classic Pro surf Valdoviño
Praia de Pantín en Valdoviño. 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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- Praia de Pantín en Valdoviño
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- original
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- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC0
2006
Surfing reads the same coast differently
Note: From 2006 the Beach of Doniños will be hosting the “European Junior Surfing Championships Doninhos (City of Ferrol)” which will be gathering, on a yearly basis, some of the best surfers from the European Union and the rest of the world.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Pantín is recorded at 43.608° N, 8.116° 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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Open ledger · AOD.EU.PANTIN.V00 · ORIGINALClose ledger · AOD.EU.PANTIN.V00
Ledger AOD.EU.PANTIN.V00
2018 Praia de Pantín. Galiza-3
Beach of Pantín, Valdoviño, Galicia (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
- Beach of Pantín, Valdoviño, Galicia (Spain)
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
TODAY
Pantín now
The Galician Upper Rias, Ferrol Region and Province of A Coruña in North-western Spain Ferrol, WikiMapia (in Spanish) Official website of the Ferrolterra Pantin Classic (in Spanish) Official Body Board News website (in English) The Ferrolterra Pantin Classic at SurfersVillage.com (in English) Surf news of pantín at Pantinsurfcamp.com
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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
2018 Praia de Pantín. Galiza-3
AOD.EU.PANTIN.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Pantín Classic Pro surf Valdoviño
AOD.EU.PANTIN.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked The Ferrolterra Pantin Classic overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.