Visit Greece ad features Australia's iconic Twelve Apostles Footage of the Twelve Apostles used in the Visit Greece ad. Picture: Alex Cherney Source: YouTube A PROMOTIONAL video released by Greece's tourism board has claimed the Twelve Apostles as a national landmark. Footage of the iconic stretch of Australian coastline was cut into an advert for the European holiday destination. Worse still, the timelapse video was shot by an Aussie photographer who was not approached for permission. The blunder came to light after Alex Cherney noticed that 15 seconds from his award-winning timelapse film Ocean Sky had been used without permission, Fairfax reported. It appears sandwiched among imagery of Greece's most beautiful islands. A voiceover intones: "When the day is done, the moon and her stars paint the sky in brilliant constellations, named from Greek mythology by ancient sailors navigating their way from island to island across the broad sea." But the tourism agency defended its mistake, saying it had deliberately used the footage because the constellations in the Southern Hemisphere "had Greek names." It said it planned to continue using Mr Cherney's work. The photographer was alerted to the error through social media just days after the Gods, Myths and Heroes ad was launched on the world stage. The images of Victoria appear alongside shots of Greek islands. When he contacted Visit Greece, he was shocked to be told that they had acquired a licence for his work and would not remove it from the video. Incredulous YouTube users who spotted the mistake commented: "5:25 is Australia not Greece LOL" and "Come to Australia instead, folks!" One user said it was "deceptive marketing" to use footage of Victoria's Great Ocean Road without mentioning it in the credits, adding that Greece did not need to resort to poaching images of other countries. The 12-minute promotional video has already been at the centre of another controversy after it was released earlier this month. Blogger Damomac noticed that it had used imagery of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games hosted by Nazi Germany. The tourism board called it an "oversight" and removed some of the footage after The Guardian covered the issue. The tourism board refused to remove images of the famous stretch of Australian coastline from its video.