Loch Ard Gorge
A narrow cove in Port Campbell National Park, a few minutes' drive west of the Twelve Apostles, with a small sandy beach enclosed by high limestone cliffs. It takes its name from the clipper Loch Ard, which was wrecked nearby in 1878.
- Where
- Port Campbell, Victoria, Australia
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- -38.6474, 143.0696
Get the Loch Ard Gorge stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Loch Ard Gorge. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Victoria volume with your photos and a note.
Near Loch Ard Gorge
Twelve Apostles 1.9 km
Limestone stacks standing in the surf off Port Campbell National Park, carved from the cliffs by the Southern Ocean. There were never really twelve, and the waves keep wearing them down, but at sunset from the clifftop lookout they glow orange.
Great Ocean Road 54 km
A 240 kilometre road along Victoria's south-west coast between Torquay and Allansford, built by returned soldiers between 1919 and 1932. It was dedicated to those killed in the First World War, making it the world's largest war memorial, and it leads to the Twelve Apostles.
Budj Bim 119 km
A dormant volcano near Macarthur in south-western Victoria, also known as Mount Eccles, with a crater lake at its heart. Its lava flows shaped the land where the Gunditjmara people built stone channels and traps to farm eels, now a World Heritage site.
Sovereign Hill 138 km
An open-air museum in Ballarat that recreates the town's first ten years after gold was found there in 1851. Costumed people work the shops and smithies along its main street, and visitors can pan for gold in the creek.
Grampians National Park 171 km
Sandstone ranges rising out of the western Victorian plains, called Gariwerd by the Jardwadjali people. The park holds many Aboriginal rock art sites, waterfalls such as MacKenzie Falls, and lookouts like the Pinnacle above Halls Gap.
St Kilda Pier 187 km
A 300 metre pier reaching into Port Phillip Bay from the St Kilda foreshore, joined to a stone breakwater. A colony of little penguins lives among the breakwater rocks, and the walk to the old pavilion kiosk at the end looks back to the city towers.
Eureka Tower 189 km
A 297 metre residential tower in Southbank, completed in 2006, its top floors capped with gold-plated glass. The Skydeck near the summit looks out over the whole city, and a glass box slides out from the building over the street below.
Shrine of Remembrance 189 km
A war memorial in Kings Domain on St Kilda Road, built to honour Victorians who served in the First World War and now remembering all Australians who have served. At 11 o'clock on 11 November a ray of sunlight falls through the roof onto the word Love on the Stone of Remembrance.
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Questions
Where is Loch Ard Gorge?
Loch Ard Gorge is in Port Campbell, Victoria, Australia. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Twelve Apostles (1.9 km), Great Ocean Road (54 km), Budj Bim (119 km).
How do I get the Loch Ard Gorge stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Loch Ard Gorge and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Victoria volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Loch Ard Gorge before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Victoria volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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