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Great Ocean Road Tours
Continue your Great Ocean Road Tour along Victoria’s Shipwreck Coast (Apostle Coast). This road continues where the drive on Great Ocean Road finishes, but is a unique area for exploration in its own right. VISIT OUR ONLINE SHOP to order your travel audio guides. Besides some of history’s most notorious and fascinating shipwrecks, your audio guide will help you explore: TOWNS Port Campbell - a very popular coastal town and home to the famous 12 Apostles, London Bridge, Loch Ard Gorge and the Bay of Islands. Warrnambool - home to many shipwrecks, a historic boathouse, a recreated maritime village and was Victoria’s most active port in the 1880s. Port Fairy - a prominent festival town along the Great Ocean Road. Portland - Victoria’s first agricultural development and first permanent European settlement in 1834. LANDMARKS Twelve Apostles - renowned collection of limestone stacks off the shore of Port Campbell.
Loch Ard Gorge - named after the clipper ship Loch Ard which ran aground nearby in 1878 after travelling from England.
London Arch - formerly know as London Bridge before an arch suddenly collapsed in 1990.
The Grotto - is a geological formation known as a 'sink hole' and is located just outside of Port Campbell. Bay of Islands - a stunning coastal park that stretches for 33km from Peterborough almost to Warrnambool.
Warrnambool Cemetery Lady Bay - location of the seaside city of Warrambool The Crags - a rocky limestone outcrop about 6km east of Yambuk
Lady Julia Percy Island - located 22km south-west of Port Fairy and Australia's only off-shore volcano
Codrington Wind Farm - largest wind farm in Victoria located in Port Fairy
Portland Lighthouse - also known as the Whaler's Bluff Lighthouse guides vessels past the treacherous Whaler's Reef into the Portland Harbour. PLANTS & ANIMALS Curdies River Whales Middle Island Tower Hill Griffiths Island Narrawong PEOPLE Tom Pierce - one of the two survivors of the ill-fated ship Loch Ard Eva Carmichael - one of the two survivors of the ill-fated ship Loch Ard Bully Forbes - a remarkable seaman with a legendary seafaring career in the 1800s Banjo Paterson - Australia's most loved bush poet
Fletcher Jones - retailing icon of the 1900s who started out in Warrnambool Matthew Flinders - one of the most successful navigators and cartographers of his age Edward Henty - the founder of Victorian settlement
Major Thomas Mitchell - was the Surveyor-General of NSW in 1827 And much, much more!
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