Port Campbell National Park Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
national park in Australia
About Port Campbell National Park
The park was first commissioned 1964 initially with 700 hectares in order to protect the limestone formations on and near the coastline adjacent to the Great Ocean Road. By 1981 the park had later been expanded to 1,750 hectares; extending from the eastern side of Curdies Inlet at Peterborough to Point Ronald at Princetown. In 2002, the Port Campbell Professional Fishermen's Association, a fisherman's association attempted to block the creation of a proposed marine national park at the Twelve Apostles location, which did not succeed. That marine national park can still be seen and explored today. The landscape of the park features an array of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes. As the cliff-tops are particularly exposed to the harsh weathe
Top Attractions in Port Campbell National Park
Explore the best things to see and do in Port Campbell National Park:
- ★Gibson Steps
- ★Loch Ard Gorge
- ★London Arch
- ★The Arch
- ★The Twelve Apostles
- ★The Twelve Apostles Lookout
- ★Tom and Eva Lookout
Port Campbell National Park Travel Guide Sections
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