Wide view of Bells Beach, Torquay, Victoria.

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Bells Beach

Torquay · Australia

Waves breaking on the sand at Bells Beach, Victoria, with the headland beyond
Looking along Bells Beach towards the surf contest area.

The short version, from the cited sources

Bells Beach is a surf beach in Surf Coast Shire, Victoria, 100 km southwest of Melbourne on the Great Ocean Road near Torquay and Jan Juc. The beach and its coastal reserve are on the Victorian Heritage Register.

Country
Australia (AU)
Region
Oceania
Administrative area
Victoria
Timezone
Australia/Melbourne
Source family
GeoNames
Source updated
2025-01-21

Names in the record

Bells Beach

No alternate names were supplied by the source.

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  • Sand color and composition
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  • Access and accessibility
  • Facilities and lifeguards
  • Seasonality and crowd pattern
  • Current hazards and restrictions
  • Live weather, tide and water-quality feeds

Source position

-38.36958, 144.28264

The map uses the coordinate supplied by the cited record. Local access and water entry are not implied.

Direct provenance

Sources behind this record

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  1. GeoNames Gazetteer ExtractGeoNames ↗

    Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.

    Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
  2. Wikipedia beach articlesWikimedia Foundation ↗

    Encyclopedia articles used for the editorial summary of illustrated records; the per-record citation links the specific article.

    Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
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