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A 45 kilometre section of the Great Ocean Road, between Lorne and Apollo Bay, is the location of the annual "Great Ocean Road Marathon". First run in 2005, the marathon is part of the Great Ocean Road Running Festival. [ 41 ]
The Twelve Apostles are a collection of limestone stacks off the shore of Port Campbell National Park, by the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. The Twelve Apostles are located on the traditional lands of the Eastern Maar peoples. [1] Their proximity to one another has made the site a popular tourist attraction.
The hotel owners later leased land on the ocean side of the Great Ocean Road and built a tennis court. The Eastern View Hotel was a popular tourist destination for many years, but closed in 1957. [5] The Great Ocean Road Trust developed a nine-hole golf course at Eastern View in 1936. It closed at the beginning of World War II, and
It is a and a popular surf beach, located 100 km south-west of Melbourne, on the Great Ocean Road near the towns of Torquay and Jan Juc. It is named after William Bell, a Geelong businessman and grazier, [2] who owned much of the property there from the 1840s. Many records wrongly accredit the location's name to John Calvert Bell of the family ...
The Port Campbell National Park was dedicated on 5 May 1964 (), [1] initially with 700 hectares (1,700 acres), in order to protect the limestone formations on and near the coastline adjacent to the Great Ocean Road.
Cape Otway is a cape and a bounded locality of the Colac Otway Shire in southern Victoria, Australia on the Great Ocean Road; much of the area is enclosed in the Great Otway National Park. The cape marks the boundary between the Southern Ocean on the west and Bass Strait on the east.
With the upgrade of the road to the town in 1927, and then the completion of the Great Ocean Road in 1932, the area became a tourist destination and an important fishing port. [6] On 10 July 1932 the coastal steamer Casino sank while attempting to berth at the town jetty. Ten people died. [8]
The Grotto. The Grotto) is a sinkhole geological formation and tourist attraction, found on the Great Ocean Road outside Port Campbell in Victoria, AustraliaWooden steps wind down the cliff face to the bottom, providing visibility of the sea beyond a pool at low tide.