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Long Beach (Tofino)

Tofino · Canada

Photo: Davidwegan / Wikimedia Commons

The short version, from the cited sources

Long Beach is the longest open shore on Vancouver Island's outer coast, a wide sweep of surf-swept sand inside Pacific Rim National Park Reserve between Tofino and Ucluelet. It made Canada an improbable surfing nation: cold-water surfers in thick wetsuits work its beach breaks year-round, and winter storm-watching is a season of its own. Old-growth rainforest presses directly to the sand line, and the area lies within the traditional territory of the Nuu-chah-nulth.

Country
Canada (CA)
Region
North America
Sand
Grey-gold
Water
Cold, consistent pacific surf
Administrative area
British Columbia
Timezone
America/Vancouver
Source family
GeoNames
Source updated
2023-11-29

Names in the record

Long Beach (Tofino)

  • Long Beach

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Source position

49.06615, -125.74502

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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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