Swell of 2001
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Large, orderly, sun-drenched winter weekend swell along the east coast of Australia, running from July 6 to 8, 2001, the result of a nearly undetected gale between New Zealand and New Caledonia. While the Australian Bureau of Meteorology had forecast modest three-foot waves for Friday, July 6, surfers from Queensland's Gold Coast to southern New South Wales woke up to find most spots breaking at a...
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