page_title: Shipwreck Coast
hierarchical_section_title: Shipwreck Coast
caption_attribution_description: English: Limestone formations east of Loch Ard Gorge, Port Campbell National Park, Victoria Australia. A Scan of a photo taken by me in March 2004.
context_page_description: The Shipwreck Coast of Victoria, Australia stretches from to Cape Otway to Port Fairy, a distance of approximately 130 km. This coastline is accessible via the Great Ocean Road, and is home to the limestone formations called The Twelve Apostles.
  Explorer Matthew Flinders said of the Shipwreck Coast, "I have seldom seen a more fearful section of coastline."
  There are approximately 638 known shipwrecks along Victoria’s coast, although only around 240 of them have been discovered. The Historic Shipwreck Trail along the Shipwreck Coast and the Discovery Coast shows some of the sites where gales, human error and, in some cases,
  foul play caused these vessels to be wrecked.
  Ships wrecked on the Shipwreck Coast include:
  Thistle
  Children
  Unknown French whaler
  Lydia
  Socrates
  Cataraqui
  Enterprise
  Essington
  Freedom
  SS Schomberg
  John Scott
  Golden Spring
  Marie Gabrielle
  Young Australian
  Loch Ard
  Napier
  Alexandra
  Yarra
  Edinburgh Castle
  Fiji
  Joseph H. Scammell
  Newfield
  Freetrader
  La Bella
  Falls of Halladale
  The Speculant
  Antares
  Casino
  City of Rayville
  Over 50 shipwrecks are commemorated in a Historic Shipwreck Trail beginning at Port Fairy.
context_section_description: The Shipwreck Coast of Victoria, Australia stretches from to Cape Otway to Port Fairy, a distance of approximately 130 km.  This coastline is accessible via the Great Ocean Road, and is home to the limestone formations called The Twelve Apostles.
  Explorer Matthew Flinders said of the Shipwreck Coast, "I have seldom seen a more fearful section of coastline."
  There are approximately 638 known shipwrecks along Victoria’s coast, although only around 240 of them have been discovered. The Historic Shipwreck Trail along the Shipwreck Coast and the Discovery Coast shows some of the sites where gales, human error and, in some cases,
  foul play caused these vessels to be wrecked.
  Ships wrecked on the Shipwreck Coast include:
  Thistle (1837)
  Children  (1839)
  Unknown French whaler (1841)
  Lydia (1843)
  Socrates (1843)
  Cataraqui (1845)
  Enterprise (1850)
  Essington (1852)
  Freedom (1853)
  SS Schomberg (built Liverpool, named after Charles Frederick Schomberg, sunk 1855)
  John Scott (1858)
  Golden Spring (1863)
  Marie Gabrielle (1869)
  Young Australian (1877)
  Loch Ard (1878)
  Napier (1878)
  Alexandra (1882)
  Yarra (1882)
  Edinburgh Castle (1888)
  Fiji  (1891)
  Joseph H. Scammell (1891)
  Newfield (1892)
  Freetrader (1894)
  La Bella  (1905)
  Falls of Halladale (1908)
  The Speculant  (1911)
  Antares   (1914)
  Casino  (1932)
  City of Rayville  (1940)
  Over 50 shipwrecks are commemorated in a Historic Shipwreck Trail beginning at Port Fairy.
caption: Limestone formations east of Loch Ard Gorge
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