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6 Ways to Strike Gold at Sovereign Hill

Walter — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:43:00 +0000

One of the great things about the award winning outdoor museum Sovereign Hill at Ballarat is the amount of activities that one can participate in. You can either dig for gold, pan for gold in the river, ogle bars of gold in sheltered comfort, experience how miners lived, or frolick amongst “denizens” of a former […]

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The City Built on Gold

Walter — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:48:00 +0000

Located northwest of Melbourne city, Ballarat was famous for being a mining town, and the site generated the greatest amount of gold during the Victorian Gold Rush of the 1850s. The city occupies an area of 740 square kilometres and houses an estimated population of over 88,000, and has a mixture of Victorian-era architecture interspersed […]

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Sovereign Hill Shines

Walter — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:31:00 +0000

Perched atop a hill in the gold mining city of Ballarat in Victoria, Sovereign Hill is an award winning outdoor museum cum heritage attraction which first opened in November 1970. Recreating the essence of a 19th century mining town, the open-air museum occupies a sprawling 25 hectare site that is linked to one of the […]

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Eureka! Its Australia’s Golden Moment.

Walter — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:56:00 +0000

Eureka Circle with the emblematic Southern Cross located at the Eureka Stockade Gardens What is the most significant moment in Australia’s history? In the hearts of many, such a moment is represented by the Eureka Stockade, a bloody rebellion of miners against their colonial government oppressors in November 1854. Happening in the gold mines of […]

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