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An outstanding section of the drive is the
Port Campbell National Park, featuring a collection of amazing
limestone sculptures, including the Twelve Apostles, London Bridge
and Loch Ard Gorge. Other highlights include the section through the
forests of the Otways Ranges, between Apollo Bay and Lorne.
The road officially starts at Torquay and ends at Warrnambool, but
the road follows the coast to Portland. En-route you can visit the resort
town of Lorne and the historic Port Fairy, west of Warrnambool. Originally
called The Sow and Piglets, with Mutton Bird Island (located at the mouth of
Loch Ard Gorge) being the Sow and the Twelve Apostles the piglets. Although it
is not clear why the name Twelve Apostles came about, the name was
adopted in the 1960s as a more tourist friendly name. There were actually only 13 limestone stacks that qualify
as the Apostles, although only eight of them are to be seen from the main
viewing platforms. Number nine crumbled on its own in 2005.
For additional information drop into the tourist visitor centre. For Great
Ocean Road accommodation
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