Great Ocean Road

Returned soldiers built the Great Ocean Road as a war memorial, cutting 237 km along Victoria's surf coast between the wars. It runs past the Twelve Apostles, still standing offshore. We draw it from real map data, matched to the road itself. The route is verified against the real road, and your poster ships straight away.

Make it yours: 17 art styles, 19 colourways and your own title, with the poster redrawing live as you pick.

Giclée-printed at 300 dpi on 200 gsm matte art paper. Framed posters come in black, white or natural timber, ready to hang.

The preview is the finished poster. What you approve on screen is exactly what we print, with no proof to wait on.

The route

The road runs west out of Torquay along the surf coast, climbs into rainforest through the Otway Ranges, then drops back to sea level at Princetown for the limestone stacks. More than 3,000 returned soldiers cut it by hand between 1919 and 1932, working with picks and shovels and blasting the harder rock faces; several died on the job.

Drivers paid a toll to cross it until the state cleared the construction debt in October 1936 and removed the toll gate, handing over the finished road as a memorial to the fallen. The coast keeps changing after the road opened: London Bridge, one of the offshore stacks, lost its landward arch to the sea on 15 January 1990, stranding two tourists on the outer span for three hours until a police helicopter lifted them off.

Stand at the Twelve Apostles at dusk with the fog closing in off the Southern Ocean and the same erosion is still working, quietly, under your feet.

Made for someone who drove it. Or for your own wall, because you did.

Related routes: Gibb River Road, Great Alpine Road and Milford Road.

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