The Twelve Apostles are the crown jewel of the Great Ocean Road – a dramatic collection of limestone stacks rising from the Southern Ocean, sculpted by millions of years of wind and wave erosion.
Despite the name, there haven’t been twelve stacks visible from the lookout. Only seven of the original Apostles are left as the continued erosion that formed them have also caused them to collapse. At the beginning of 2000, there were only nine. One collapsed in July 2005, and another collapsed in 2009.
