The Twelve Apostles is a collection of limestone stacks off the shore of the Port Campbell National Park, by the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia.There are eight Apostles left, the ninth having collapsed dramatically in July 2005.Mutton Bird Island (left) provides a safe breeding site to tens of thousands of migratory birds returning in September each year.Tom (left) and Eva (right) were named after the two teenage survivors of the Loch Ard shipwreck (1878). Of the 54 passengers and crew, only two survived: Tom Pearce, 19, a ship’s apprentice, and Eva Carmichael, an Irishwoman emigrating with her family, 19.The Razorback is narrow limestone stack formed by wind and water erosion.Loch Ard Gorge was named after the clipper ship Loch Ard, which ran aground on nearby Muttonbird Island on June 1, 1878 approaching the end of a three-month journey from England to Melbourne.The Blowhole is result of constant erosion of the sea against the limestone cliffs, along with the seepage of surface rain water cutting through the limestone cliffs which have caused it to cave in over the tunnel that the ocean has been carving.Ledge near Sherbrook RiverAn arch closet to the shoreline at the London Bridge collapsed unexpectedly on January, 15 1990, leaving two tourists stranded on the outer part before they were rescued by a helicopter. Until this time the bridge was joined to the mainland and it was possible to walk out across both arches to the end of a ‘bridge’.
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