Oceania · Illustrated record
Manly Beach
Sydney · Australia
The short version, from the cited sources
Manly fronts the Pacific at the seaward edge of Sydney's northern beaches, reached most famously by the harbour ferry from Circular Quay. The beach runs roughly two kilometres beneath a double row of Norfolk Island pines, hosting year-round surf culture and one of the sport's oldest competition histories: the site is tied to surfing's early growth in Australia. A sheltered harbourside beach and a shoreline walkway to Shelly Beach sit minutes from the ocean front.
- Country
- Australia (AU)
- Region
- Oceania
- Sand
- Golden
- Surface
- Sand
- Water
- Open ocean surf
- Administrative area
- New South Wales
- Timezone
- Australia/Sydney
- Source family
- GeoNames
- Source updated
- 2026-05-31
Names in the record
Manly Beach
No alternate names were supplied by the source.
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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
-33.79665, 151.28852
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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- 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 - OpenStreetMap beach element tagsOpenStreetMap contributors ↗
Surface, lifeguard, access, wheelchair and facility tags read from the beach's own OpenStreetMap element; the per-record citation links the element.
ODbL 1.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04 - Wikidata beach itemsWikimedia Foundation ↗
Coordinates, administrative area, body of water, length and typed beach class read from the beach item's own statements; the per-record citation links the item.
CC0 1.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04 - 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