B100 · Australia

Great Ocean Road

Victoria’s 240 km coast road between Torquay and Allansford. This section runs along the cliffs between Lorne and Apollo Bay.

StartFinishHairpin

44.6 kmLength

260Pace-note calls

1Hairpin

36Tight corners (1–2)

↑180 ↓190Climb and drop, m

≈80 mHighest point

Counts are from Turini’s pace-note engine on this route. Heights come from terrain data and can differ from signposted figures by a few tens of metres.

Where is the Great Ocean Road?

The Great Ocean Road is in Australia, on the B100. The route on this page: Lorne to Apollo Bay, 44.6 km.

Why the Great Ocean Road is famous

It was built by returned servicemen after the First World War and is regarded as the world’s largest war memorial. It is on Australia’s National Heritage List.

Great Ocean Road corners

Over 44.6 km Turini calls 1 hairpins and 239 corners graded 1 to 6, plus 1 dip. That is 260 calls in all, one every 171 metres on average. Grade 1 is the tightest, 6 is nearly straight (how to read pace notes).

HP1

235

365

452

545

641

Great Ocean Road elevation profile

From 9 m at the start to 5 m at the finish, with a highest point of about 80 m. Red marks are the hairpins.

100 m0 m

0 km22.3 km44.6 km

Great Ocean Road pace notes, first few km

The first 25 calls, exactly as Turini reads them, with the distance from the start.

60 mRoundabout, second exit

305 mRight 5

570 mRight 5

635 mLeft 6

1.08 kmRight 2

1.47 kmRight 5

1.59 kmLeft 4 long

1.75 kmRight 3

1.86 kmRight 5

1.93 kmLeft 3

1.99 kmRight 3

2.26 kmRight 5

2.38 kmRight 2

2.52 kmLeft 2 very long tightens

2.69 kmBridge

2.74 kmRight 3

2.82 kmLeft 3 very long

3.06 kmRight 2

3.13 kmLeft 5

3.17 kmRight 3

3.23 kmLeft 4 long

3.41 kmLeft 6

3.46 kmRight 2 tightens

3.58 kmLeft 3

3.77 kmRight 5

That takes you to 3.77 km. 235 more calls follow over the remaining 40.8 km.

Before you drive the Great Ocean Road

Open all year; bushfires and landslips occasionally close sections.

Speed limits vary between 50 and 100 km/h and the road is busy with tourist traffic. Drive on the left, and use the pull-outs to let faster cars by.

How to drive the Great Ocean Road with Turini

Set the route before you leave and Turini saves its notes on the phone, so it works with the screen off and no signal. On the road it reads each call about 4.5 seconds before the corner, timed to your speed, and you never touch the phone. It also works through Android Auto. If pace notes are new to you, start in Simple mode (Easy, Medium, Hard) and switch to the 1–6 scale once it feels natural.

Always drive within the law, the conditions and what you can see. Turini tells you what the map says; the road is what counts.

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Sources: Wikipedia: Great Ocean Road.

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