Allans Beach
beach in Otago Region, New Zealand
Allans Beach is a white sand beach on the Pacific Ocean coast of Otago Peninsula, in the South Island of New Zealand. It forms the seaward shore of a large spit at the entrance to Hoopers Inlet. Allans Beach is 25 kilometres (16 mi) by road from Dunedin city centre and 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the small town of Portobello. It receives little human traffic but is known to trampers, surfers, and naturists.
Physical geography
Allans Beach proper is approximately 1.9 kilometres (1.2 mi) long and faces south-southeast; it is part of the Allans Beach Recreation Reserve. It runs to the southwestern tip of the spit which narrows the opening of Hoopers Inlet to a channel some 170 metres (560 ft) across. Behind the beach rises a system of dunes covered in pīkao sedge. Behind these dunes lies Hoopers Inlet Swamp, which consists of a sequence of wetland types from freshwater swamp to salt marsh. The Allans Beach Wildlife Management Reserve covers a section of the Inlet beyond these wetlands.
Northeastward the land rises towards Mount Charles; eastward along the coast the slopes of the Mount abut the sea to form the rugged headlands of Mātakitaki and Cape Saunders.
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