During the rest of the year, Oahu enjoys the most notorious surf in the world.

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Organisers are hoping those attending will also enjoy the world famous surf at Balevullin beach, and try the other watersports, biking and galleries the island has to offer.

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Bronte also lays claims to the oldest surf lifesaving club in the world (1903), an iconic claim in the city that mythologized lifesavers well before David Hasselhoff.

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Red Bull sponsors some 500 athletes around the world, the type who will surf in Nova Scotia in January or jump out of a plane to "fly" across the English Channel.

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Only a 14 mile ferry ride off the coast of surf-haven Montauk, NY, the island welcomes world-weary travelers a place of refuge.

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And it is a spectacular one, encompassing UNESCO World Heritage sites, pirate coves, dinosaur fossils, surf beaches, seal-basked rocks and enough Cornish pasty parlours to sustain your hiking between them.

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In a digital world, consumers create enormous trails of personal data as they surf, browse, buy, share, and search across the Web.

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The surf reef's approval ended years of speculation over whether it would go ahead, during which time world experts carried out feasibility studies and local residents were consulted.

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