Talk:Great Ocean Road

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Contents 1 Location of Visitors' Centre 2 Suggestion: listing the different features 3 Merger proposal 4 Worlds Largest War Memorial?

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)