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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 04/06/2026 14:03:00

Built by returned soldiers in the years after the First World War, the Great Ocean Road winds for some 240 kilometres along the south-west coast of Victoria and stands as the world's largest war memorial. Work began in 1919 and the road was completed in 1932, hand-cut by thousands of ex-servicemen using picks, shovels and explosives along cliffs and through forest, both as a tribute to comrades killed in the war and as a way to connect isolated coastal settlements. The result is a touring route ...