The Final Wave

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{{Infobox album

| name = The Final Wave

| type = live album

| artist = Australian Crawl

| cover = The Final Wave.jpg

| alt =

| released = September 1986

| recorded = 27 January 1986

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Rock

| length =

| label = Freestyle Records / EMI

| producer = John French

| prev_title = Between A Rock and a Hard Place

| prev_year = 1985

| next_title = Lost & Found

| next_year = 1996

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r240453|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

}}

The Final Wave is the second live album released by Australian rock band Australian Crawl.{{cite web| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20131022063048/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/a/australiancrawl.html | url = http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/a/australiancrawl.html | last1 = Holmgren | first1 = Magnus | first2 = Stefan | last2 = Warnqvist | first3 = Oliver | last3 = Draper | first4 = Bill | last4 = McDonough | title = Australian Crawl | publisher = Australian Rock Database. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren) | archivedate = 22 October 2013 | url-status = usurped | accessdate = 23 March 2014 }} It is a recording of the band's final Melbourne concert on 27 January 1986. The album reached #16 on the Australian album charts upon its release.{{cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.

The album cover features a copy of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai's best known woodblock print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa. It was first published in 1832 (Edo period) and is Hokusai's most famous work. It depicts an enormous wave threatening boats near the Japanese prefecture of Kanagawa; Mount Fuji can be seen in the background. The wave is probably not intended to be a tsunami, but a normal ocean wave created by the wind.