The World's Largest War Memorial: The Great Ocean RoadAdded on 11/23/2006 to Articles Directory / Travels & Vacations / Australian national parks / Otway National Park (Great Ocean Road)
The world's largest war memorial, the Great Ocean Road, is one of Australia's gems. Soldiers returning from battle in World War I were commissioned to build the road as a tribute to their fallen comrades. The project gave them jobs and created a tourist route. Beginning in 1918, these men toiled for 16 years using picks, shovels, and dynamite to carve and blast the path that became the Great Ocean Road.
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