page_title: Victory Beach
section_title: Access
hierarchical_section_title: Victory Beach / Physical geography / Access
caption_attribution_description: English: New Zealand Sea Lion fast asleep near the southern end of Victory Beach, Otago, New Zealand. Looked dead until it raised it's hind flippers.
context_page_description: Victory Beach is located on the Pacific Ocean coast of the Otago Peninsula, in the South Island of New Zealand, 24 kilometres by road from Dunedin city centre and 7 kilometres from the nearby town of Portobello. The longest beach on the peninsula, Victory Beach is located northeast of the entrance to Papanui Inlet and stretches for 3.2 kilometres. The beach's name derives from the wreck of the SS Victory on the beach in 1861.
context_section_description: Access to the beach is via Dick Road, a narrow metalled road which begins at the meeting of Weir Road and Papanui Inlet Road. Both of these are most easily accessed from Portobello on the Otago Harbour coast of the Peninsula – the former via Harington Point Road and the latter via Allans Beach Road and Sheppard Road. At the end of Dick Road, a 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) walking track leads to the beach past the Pyramids. A detour from the walking track leads up the Little Pyramid to a viewing site. The track thereafter splits to form a loop track to the beach with a network of further tracks over the dunes. Joins in the track are marked by yellow and black poles, but these can be inconspicuous.
caption: A New Zealand sea lion asleep on Victory Beach
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