Talk:Great Ocean Road

Location of Visitors' Centre
The article says there is vistors' centre, whose construction aroused some controversy, near Peterborough. The only Visitors' Centre I can think of which could be at all controversial is the one at the Twelve Apostles' car park, which is between Princetown and Port Campbell. Or am I thinking of something completely different? Rocksong 05:03, 16 October 2006 (UTC)


 * And the one near the 12 Apostles it ended up winning an architects' environment award anyway, so (if I'm thinking of the same Visitors' Centre) it seems the concerns may have been ill-founded anyway: http://www.aila.org.au/victoria/awards2003/projects/twelveapostles.htm . I propose deleting the whole "controversy" bit. Rocksong 04:30, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Suggestion: listing the different features
I've just travelled the GOR. With time being comparatively short, it was hard to choose between the many turnoffs from the 12 Apostles to the Bay of Islands. Is there any site which lists them all, so travellers can plan a bit? (All the external links in the article are pretty poor in this regard). Otherwise, perhaps a collaborative effort can do it here? (Since anyone can drive out and look, I don't think it really qualifies as WP:OR). Rocksong 12:37, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Any map could be used as a source for this information, and I agree that the external links provide a poor sequential list. I actually own one which I bought there at the time (2003) but have forgotten where I put it :/ Orderinchaos78 11:19, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Merger proposal
It was suggested that Australia Motorcycling be merged into here, but I think Australia Motorcycling should just be deleted. It's only 2 paragraphs; 1st para is copied from the web, and para is unencyclopedic. So overall it is no use to Wikipedia and should be deleted. Rocksong 10:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah I just wanted to see what someone else thought, if they wanted to include that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Farsouth (talk • contribs) 10:57, 21 March 2007 (UTC).


 * Done and done. Good call :) Orderinchaos78 11:16, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Worlds Largest War Memorial?
I remember hearing and reading somewhere that the Great Ocean Road was in fact built by WW1 vets as a memorial to fallen WW1 soldiers and due to its size would make it the worlds largest war memorial.

http://www.abc.net.au/southwestvic/storiess1896463.htm http://www.gippslandinfo.com.au/pages.asp?code=44 http://australianetwork.com/nexus/stories/GREATOCEANROAD.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.44.206.184 (talk) 16:32, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I think the 'built by WWI vets' is pretty much right, but the 'as a memorial' is probably more feel good story than fact, even if widely used. As usual, thousands of returning soldiers can struggle to find work, and this was widely used as an employment scheme by the government. --jjron (talk) 14:06, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The largest war memorial in the world tag is used repeatedly in many reliable sources in this article, so I would argue it's generally accepted that it's true - this indicates that it was an honour bestowed on the road's 75th birthday. However, I am not sure how well recognised it is outside of Australia. Jwoodger (talk) 00:49, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Construction effort section
In cleaning up some spam links and trying to verify sources, I initially thought that this section was copy-pasted from the website of the Lorne Historical Society (LHS), but then on looking deeper into the page history, I came to the conclusion that the article had undergone a longer evolution, and that the LHS version was a more recent unacknowledged copy of the WP article.

The original source of the WP article for this section appears to have been the GoWest website, but this site appears to have since been updated and now just advertises the travel business, and the reference material no longer appears there.

In any case, the story of the "500 barrels of beer and 120 cases of spirits" seems to have grown in the telling - a quick Trove search has turned up this article from the Geelong Advertiser of 5 November 1924, which, referring to the stranding of the Casino on 21 October 1924 and the jettisoning of its cargo, mentions "18 barrels of beer, cases of mineral waters and about 100 cases of general groceries, mostly decayed by the seawater. Some of the barrels of beer, rather the empty barrels, can be seen inland inside the sand dunes, having apparently, as some wag suggested, been carried there by the kangaroos or "two legged kangaroos.""

This whole section needs more reliable sources. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 15:12, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

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