AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 20 March 2011 | Views [311]
The Great Ocean Road was a make-work project for WW1 veterans and a tribute to their fallen comrades, built between 1919 and 1932. They lived in camps and slowly carved the road out of the cliffs, a distance of 243 km. As a result the Road is considered the world's largest war memorial. This is the memorial arch which explains the story, about 50 km from its start in Torquay. The arch though has been rebuilt twice: in 1974 to widen it, and most recently in 1991 after it was destroyed in the 1983 Ash Wednesday brush fires.
