The Twelve Apostles (Victoria)

The Twelve Apostles ( German Twelve Apostles ) are up to 60 meters high, standing in the sea cliffs of limestone. They are between Princetown and Port Campbell Coastal Ward of the county Corangamite Shire in the Australian state of Victoria in Port Campbell National Park. They should be the most photographed tourist attraction in Australia after Uluru (Ayers Rock). Sunrise and sunset let the rocks in the surf lit. They form one of the highlights of the Great Ocean Road, a spectacular coastal road in southeast Australia and the Great Ocean Walk.

Name

The Twelve Apostles were formerly The Sow and Pigs ( German: The Sow and Pigs ) (or Pigs were Piglets = piggy replaced) and Muttonbird Iceland specified, as is noted on a card that Charles La Trobe in March 1864 on his expedition used to Cape Otway. Muttonbird Iceland, however, lies in front of the Loch Ard Gorge. It is believed that the present name of the Twelve Apostles emerged in the 1950s, although it was already was not twelve but only nine rock pillars.

Rock Formation

The pillar-like structures of different height and diameter formed by the erosive power of the sea. Every year, giving way to the cliffs of Port Campbell Cliffs by about two inches further back. First More resistant parts form peninsulas that hold later only by natural bridges to the mainland. As in 1990 the so-called London Arch these constructions break down over time, and even the peaks of the Twelve Apostles are geologically an appearance only of short duration. The carbonate matrix of the Heytesbury Group was deposited in the Tertiary Miocene in the Otway Basin by sea level rise.

Despite its name, the lineup consisted only of nine rocks. After July 3, 2005, a 50 m high rock (compare the two images from 2002 and 2012 ) due to the natural erosion process collapsed at the base of the rock in it, there were only eight rock pillars. In September 2009, collapsed, another rock that was originally adopted by the that he was one of the apostles. However, it turned out that the sister of a fallen rock formation belonged.

The Twelve Apostles are part of a series of rock formations along this stretch of coastline. Other attractions in the area include Pudding Basin rock, Loch Ard Gorge, London Arch, The Razorback, the uninhabited Muttonbird Iceland, Thunder Cave, The Blowhole, Elephant Rock, Bakers Oven and The Grotto.