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Story: Beach culture

Surfing

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Surfing

Jerry Nēpia surfs at Tītahi Bay, a popular surf beach near Porirua on the Kāpiti Coast.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: 24/0112/1991/EP

by Ross Giblin

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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How to cite this page

Jock Phillips, Beach culture – Beach culture, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2276/surfing (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 15 January 2010.