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Nauset Beach

Orleans · United States

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The short version, from the cited sources

Nauset Beach is the outer arm of Cape Cod at its most elemental: a long Atlantic-facing barrier of sand and dune within the Cape Cod National Seashore, with cold green water, genuine surf and a shoreline that storms visibly rearrange. Grey seals now gather here in large numbers, and the white sharks that follow them have made shark-awareness flags part of the beach's routine. It is a place shaped by erosion and honest about it.

Country
United States (US)
Region
North America
Sand
Golden
Water
Cold, powerful atlantic surf
Administrative area
Massachusetts
Timezone
America/New_York
Source family
GeoNames
Source updated
2017-05-23

Names in the record

Nauset Beach

  • Nauset Light Beach

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Source position

41.85983, -69.95946

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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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