Johanna is a small locality on the coast of

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located west of

Cape Otway Cape Otway is a cape and a bounded locality of the Colac Otway Shire in southern Victoria, Australia on the Great Ocean Road; much of the area is enclosed in the Great Otway National Park. The cape marks the boundary between the Southern Ocea ...

in the

Colac Otway Shire The Shire of Colac Otway is a local government area in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-western part of the state. It covers an area of and in June 2018 had a population of 21,503. It includes the towns ...

. It is named after the schooner ''Joanna'' that was wrecked at the mouth of the

Johanna River The Johanna River is a perennial river of the Corangamite catchment, located in the Otways region of the Australian state of Victoria. Location and features The Johanna River rises in the Otway Ranges in southwest Victoria, below , and flo ...

on 22 September 1843.

History

Johanna Post Office opened on 1 November 1913 and closed in 1967. The

surfing Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Waves suita ...

beach at Johanna is a long stretch of beach breaks, or beach and reef, noted for its power and its reputation for rapid jumps in size (doubling over the space of just a few hours). The

Bells Beach Surf Classic The Rip Curl Pro, formerly the Bells Beach Surf Classic, is a WSL (formerly ASP) World Tour surfing competition held in and around Torquay, Victoria and sponsored by surf company Rip Curl. The event is based at Bells Beach, Victoria, Australia ...

competition has been moved from

Bells Beach Bells Beach is a locality in Surf Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia. It is a popular surf beach, located 100 km south-west of Melbourne, on the Great Ocean Road near the towns of Torquay and Jan Juc. It is named after William Bell, ...

to Johanna on occasions when the surf at Bells has been flat (such as in 2003 and 2010).The 2003 ASP/WCT Rip Curl Pro: Round Three — Johanna Turns On
at ''

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'' magazine The westerly-facing beach at Johanna picks up swells that miss Bells and the

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References

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- Town information Towns in Victoria (state) Coastal towns in Victoria (state) Otway Ranges Surfing locations in Victoria (state) {{BarwonSouthWest-geo-stub