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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. Their proximity to one another has made the site a popular tourist attraction. Despite their name, it is possible that there were never 12 rock stacks [1]. Seven of the original nine stacks ...
The Twelve Apostles Marine National Park is a protected marine national park located on the south-west coast of Victoria, Australia. The 7,500-hectare (19,000-acre) marine park is situated near Port Campbell and is named after the scenic Twelve Apostles rock stacks , and contains the wreck of the clipper Loch Ard , wrecked on Mutton Bird Island ...
Aerial views of Port Campbell National Park and Twelve Apostles Marine National Park. The Port Campbell National Park is a national park in the south-western district of Victoria , Australia . The 1,750-hectare (4,300-acre) national park is situated approximately 190 kilometres (120 mi) south-west of Melbourne and approximately 10 kilometres (6 ...
The Shipwreck Coast of Victoria, Australia stretches from Cape Otway to Port Fairy, a distance of approximately 130 km. This coastline is accessible via the Great Ocean Road, and is home to the limestone formations called The Twelve Apostles. Explorer Matthew Flinders said of the Shipwreck Coast, "I have seldom seen a more fearful section of ...
The rock cliff consists of a relatively weakly compacted limestone, which lost its rock volume due to erosion by wind and weather and thus became unstable. A panoramic view from Tom and Eva Lookout (2023). The Island Archway was part of a series of free-standing limestone formations on the Great Ocean Road that includes the Twelve Apostles.
The gorge is named after the clipper Loch Ard that was shipwrecked on 1 June 1878 near the end of a three-month journey from England to Melbourne.Of 54 passengers and crew, only two survived: Thomas Pearce, one of the ship's apprentices; and Eva Carmichael, an Irishwoman emigrating with her family.
The Twelve Apostles stacks in Victoria, Australia. A stack or sea stack is a geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast, formed by wave erosion. [1] Stacks are formed over time by wind and water, processes of coastal geomorphology. [2]
Port Campbell (/ ˈ k æ m b əl /) [2] is a town in Victoria, Australia. The town is on the Great Ocean Road, west of the Twelve Apostles, in the Shire of Corangamite. At the 2016 census, Port Campbell had a population of 478. [3] The Twelve Apostles limestone structure