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Ripple Effect: Coolangatta is The World’s Most Efficient Surf Town

Roughly one in 1,000 residents eventually become world champ. How’s that for odds?

Population aside, the minuscule Australian town of Coolangatta has produced some of the world’s best surfers time and time again. There’s one great reason for it, too: The Superbank. It’s the Superbank that brings the surf world’s laser focus to such a tiny corner of the world, and it’s deserving of all the praise heaped onto it. Five world champs enough for ya? We thought so too.