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Victory Beach
Otago Peninsula · New Zealand
The short version, from the cited sources
The longest beach on the Otago Peninsula, backed by an unusually large dune system at Okia Flat and reached only on foot. Named after a ship wrecked here in 1861. Sea lions and occasionally elephant seals rest on the sand.
- Country
- New Zealand (NZ)
- Region
- Oceania
- Sand
- Pale grey-gold
- Water
- Cold exposed southern ocean
- Administrative area
- Otago
- Timezone
- Pacific/Auckland
- Source family
- GeoNames
- Source updated
- 2016-06-22
Names in the record
Victory 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
-45.82838, 170.73010
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Direct provenance
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Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.
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