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A giant surfboard sign marking Surf World Gold Coast at Currumbin.
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The Big Surfboard
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Site-level location · 28.1356° S, 153.4881° E
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The story
A giant surfboard marking the entrance to a museum of surfboards.
The collection behind it runs to over a hundred boards, the earliest dating from 1915 and continuing through every decade to modern shapes. That span is the point: 1915 is the year Duke Kahanamoku gave his celebrated surfing demonstrations in Australia, and the boards after it trace an extraordinary technological sequence – solid timber planks weighing tens of kilograms, then hollow plywood, then balsa, then the foam-and-fibreglass revolution of the late 1950s that made the sport accessible to anybody, then shortboards, then everything since.
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The current Surf World website prominently identifies the giant surfboard at its entrance.
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Navigate to Surf World Gold Coast at 35 Tomewin Street, Currumbin. Surf World currently identifies the giant surfboard at the museum and directs visitors to free parking in the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary car park before the paid-parking booth. Use the signed parking arrangement on arrival; the stored site point is not asserted to be a parking-bay centroid.
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