Twelve Apostles Rock (The Twelve Apostles) is located in the Port Campbell National Park on the Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia, and has stood by the coast for 20 million years. Gradually formed by the accumulation of hundreds of millions of small stones, and then buried in the seabed, until later, strong tides and winds finally exposed these rocks to the surface, becoming the now famous Twelve Apostles Rock. Because their number and form coincided with the twelve apostles of Jesus, they were named after the twelve apostles in the Bible.