Clifton Beach, Tasmania
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| Clifton Beach Hobart, Tasmania |
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| Postcode: | 7024 | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Clarence | ||||||||||||
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Clifton Beach is a town located on the South Arm Peninsula on the outskirts of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is part of the City of Clarence. It is a popular surfing location.[1]
Clifton Beach is a popular surfing beach located about 25 km southeast of Hobart. The Clifton Beach Road runs to the western end of the beach, providing access to a small beachfront holiday settlement and the Clifton Beach Surf Life Saving Club, which was established in 1963. The entire beach is backed by a coastal reserve, which incorporates coastal dunes behind the central and eastern part of the beach. The now vegetated dunes have transgressed up to 300 m inland rising to more than 20 m, with dense vegetation behind, then the shallow southern shores of circular Pipe Clay Lagoon. The beach is bordered by 54 m high Cape Deslacs in the east and 50 m high rocky cliffs in the west that run south for 3.5 km rising to 100 m high at Cape Contrariety.The beach is 2.1 km long and faces south-southeast into Storm Bay exposing it to all southerly swell. Waves average 1-1.5 m and maintain a moderately steep beach fronted by a continuous bar which is cut by rips every 200 m during and following high waves, with permanent rips against the rocks at each end.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Surfing. Clarence City Council (2004-07-08). Retrieved on November 30, 2006.
- ^ Surf Life Saving Australia Beach Profile.
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