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Surfing on the North Shore - near Sunset Beach
Surfing on the North Shore - near Sunset Beach. 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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- Surfing on the North Shore - near Sunset Beach
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- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Sunset Beach
How work, access and surfing shaped Sunset Beach.
Scroll to follow the shoreline through time
Sunset Beach lies on Oʻahu’s North Shore, where an exposed reef and beach face winter swell from the North Pacific.
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BEFORE TOURISM
Work at the water’s edge
The older Hawaiian name Paumalū predates the Sunset Beach name and keeps the place connected to the North Shore’s Hawaiian geography.
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ACCESS CHANGES
The shore becomes reachable
It is a two-mile (3.3 km) stretch of mostly beige sand located at 59-104 Kamehameha Highway in Pupukea, 39 miles (63 km) driving distance from Waikiki.
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Surfing @ Sunset Beach
Oahu Island North Shore, Hawai'i. 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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- Oahu Island North Shore, Hawai'i
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- Open-licence photograph
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1985
Surfing reads the same coast differently
It was home to the Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship until 1985.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Sunset Beach is recorded at 21.680° N, 158.102° 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 on the North Shore - near Sunset Beach
Surfing on the North Shore - near Sunset Beach. 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 on the North Shore - near Sunset Beach
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
TODAY
Sunset Beach now
Today Sunset Beach is home to the prestigious Triple Crown of Surfing, which is part of the World Cup of Surfing.
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
Surfing on the North Shore - near Sunset Beach
AOD.US.SUNSET-BEACH.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Surfing @ Sunset Beach
AOD.US.SUNSET-BEACH.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Editorial record
Full US Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Sunset Beach (Oahu) overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.