Peterborough

Peterborough is a small town on the historic Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia, about 3 hours drive from Melbourne. It was supposedly founded when the schooner The Schomberg was wrecked two hundred metres offshore on a calm moonlit night in 1855 on what is now known as Schomberg Reef. The Shomberg was a large nad luxuriousclipper sailing on her maiden voyage. No lives were lost.

It was first settled as a fishing village that is now a popular holiday destination.

Peterborough sits at the mouth of Curdies Inlet. Here, chances are, you will se a large number of Black Swans. On one side of th inlet are large sand dunes and an exposed beach whilst on the other side are low snadstone cliffs.

Situated near The Twelve Apostles, London Arch and other notable natural land formations, Peterborough is perhaps best known for its part of the Shipwreck Coast. Many ships have been wrecked in the vicinity, due to limestone cliffs eroding away and leaving many patches of harder rock concealed just under the waves quite a distance out to sea, and this erosion is ongoing, as shown by London Bridge collapsing in the early nineties to form London Arch.

One of the most famous wrecks was the Falls of Halladale which was wrecked in 1908 in thick fog, and became a tourist attraction for the next few years as it remained on the reef it was stuck on.