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Duke Kahanamoku
(1890 - 1968)
Catalogue Entries:#100
Home: Haleakala, Honolulu, Oaha
Beach : Waikiki, Oaha
Competitive Record
Olympic medalist swimmer (two gold, one silver), Olympic water polo representative,Swimming Hall of Fame Inductee, First Inductee Surfing magazine's Hall of Fame 1968, Surfer magazine's Surfer of the Century 1999.
Surfing
waterman,surfer, shaper, canoe paddler, sailor, introduced surfing to Australia, New Zealand and East Coast USA, multiple surf rescues, founder of first surf club, Ambassador of Surfing, Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surf Contest 1968 - 1975?
See Duke Kahanamoku in Australia

REFERENCES
Books
Autobiography
Kahanamoku, Duke With Brennan, Joe: 
Duke Kahanamoku’s World of Surfing
Angus and Robertson Publishers Sydney , Australia  1968
2nd Edition  A&R Paperbacks, Sydney , Australia 1972
 



Biography
1. Brennan, Joe : Duke - The Life Story of Hawai'i's Duke Kahanamoku
 Ku Pa'a Publishing Incorporated Honolulu, Hawaii 1994

2. Hall, and Ambrose, : Life With the Duke

General
Note : Duke Kahanamoku's name appears in almost every general surfing book.
Listed are main references.
1. Blake, Tom : Hawaiian Surfboard
Paradise of the Pacific Press, Honolulu, Hawaii  1935
Reprinted as Hawaiian Surfriders 1935
Mountain and Sea Publishing, Box 126 Redondo Beach California 90277. 1983. Pages 51 -58.

2. C. Bede Maxwell : Surf - Australians Against the Sea
Angus and Robertson Sydney  1949  pages 235 - 237.

3. Walter Forbes : The History of the Freshwater Surf Lifesaving Club 1908 - 1958  page 18.
Reprinted in  Myers, K. (Editor): No Lives Lost :
The History of the Freshwater Surf life Saving Club 1908 -1983
Printed by A. Windsor and Son Pty Ltd, 4 James Street, Wateroo. 699 2829. 1983

4. Bloomfield, John :  Know-how in the Surf
Angus and Robertson  89 Castlereagh Street, Sydney 1959.  page 61.

5. Reg S. Harris in Heroes of the Surf – Fifty Years’ History of the Manly Life Saving Club 1961
records the date as '15th February, 1915', pages Fifty-three to Fifty-five.

6. Pollard, Jack (ed.) :  The Australian Surfrider
K.G.Murray Publishing Co.P/L,142 Clarence Street ,  Sydney Australia 1964
Introduction by Duke Kahanamoku page 7, also pages 27 -28 and 55 - 56.

7. Farrelly, Midget. As told to McGregor, Craig :  This Surfing Life
 Rigby Limited, James Place, Adelaide 1965 pages 108 - 111.

8. Hemmings, Fred : Surfing
Grossett and Dunlap, New York
Zokeisha Publications Ltd.  5-1-6 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 106.  1977 pages 18 - 20.

9. Warwick, Wayne  A Guide to Surfriding in New Zealand
Second Edition  Viking Sevenseas Ltd  Wellington, New Zealand  1978
Chapter : The Early Days/Introduction of surfriding into New Zealand.

10.Young, Nat ; Photographs by McCausland, Bill:  Nat Young’s Book of Surfing
A.H. & A.W. Reed Pty. Ltd. 53 Myroora Rd, Terry Hills, Sydney.1979 Page 65

11. Wells, Lana: Sunny Memories - Australians at the Seaside
Greenhouse Publications Pty Ltd 385 - 387 Bridge Road, Richmond, Victoria 3126 1982
pages 150 - 152 and 159.

12. Myers, K. (Editor): The History of the Freshwater Surf life Saving Club 1908 -1983
Printed by A. Windsor and Son Pty Ltd, 4 James Street, Wateroo. 699 2829 1983
Chapter by Alf Henderson, page 56.

13. Young, Nat with McGregor, Craig :  The History 0f Surfing
Palm Beach Press, 40 Palm Beach Road,  Palm Beach NSW 2108  1983. page 43 - 47.

14. Barry Galton : Gladiators of the Surf:
The Austalian Surf Life Saving Championships - A History
AH & AW Read Pty Ltd, 2 Aquatic Drive Frenchs Forest NSW 2086 1984 pages 25 - 26.

15. Lueras. Leonard : Surfing - The Ultimate Pleasure
 Workman Publishing 1 West 39 Street New York, NY 10018.1984  pages  71 - 101

16.Young, Nat : Surfing Fundamentals
Palm Beach Press, 40 Ocean Road, Palm Beach NSW 2108 1985 Page 97.
Same text as Nat Young's Book of Surfing, above.

17. Carroll, Nick (editor):  The Next Wave : A Survey of World Surfing
Collins Angus & Robertson Publishers Pty Ltd
4 Eden Park, 31 Waterloo Road, North Ryde NSW 2113 1991. pages 22 - 29.

18. Stell, Marion K. : Pam Burridge
 Collins Angus & Robertson Publishers (Australia) Pty. Limited
 A division of Harper Collins Publishers (Australia) Pty. Limited
 25 Ryde Road, Pymble NSW 2073, Australia. 1992  pages 6 - 8

19. Finney, Ben and Houston, James D. : Surfing – A History of the Ancient Hawaiian Sport
Pomegranate Books P.O. Box 6099 Rohnert Park, CA 94927 1996 pages 65 - .81

20. Warshaw, Matt :  Surfriders – In Search of the Perfect Wave
Tehabi Books, Inc.  Collins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022.1997 page 19.

21. Kampion, Drew. Forward by Bruce Brown : Stoked : A History of Surf Culture
General Publishing Group Los Angles 1997
Second edition Benedikt Tashen Verlag GmbH, Hohenzollernring 53,D-50672 Koin.1998.pages 37- 43.

22.Thoms, Albie: Surfmovies
The Blue Group  PO Box 321 Noosa Heads Queensland 4567  2000
pages 20 - 23, 31, 43, 45,64 - 65, 69, 88, and 94.



Web Pages
Legendary Surfers.
Duke Kahanamoku - The Dawn of Australian Surfing History - 1915 : by Peter Brown. Article and photographs of Duke Kahanamoku at Boomerang Camp, Freshwater, Summer 1915 and his introduction of surfing.Also incudes article on Freshwater SLSC and a comphrensive links page.Australia.
International Surfing Museum in Huntington Beach -Oceanside, California. Well presented with  historical data, a few interesting features but the page is not regulary updated, eg Current Exhibit has been current for the last 18 months. Also see Surf Culture Orange County site, above.
Duke Kahanamoku : surfboards by Kahanamoku Sons: commercial site with some historical information.Hawaii?

Magazines
Sandra Hall : The Million Dollar Surfboard in Longboard magazine April/May 1996 pages
Surfing magazine 1968
Surfer magazine 1999

Film (Appearances)
From  Thoms :Surf Movies, 22.above.
Image , top :

"What is it, Duke?"
Answer : "The stuff that dreams are made of."
Reference : Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon, paraphasing William Shakespeare.
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