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The goldfields region is more strongly linked to the impact of the Victorian Gold Rush than the discovery of gold in Victoria. As a result of the gold rush, the region contains many old buildings, including celebrated examples of Victorian architecture, some of which are heritage listed, while others have fallen into disrepair and become derelict.
Module:Location map/data/Australia Victoria Shire of Central Goldfields is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Shire of Central Goldfields. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 12:32, 17 February 2011: 533 × 587 (454 KB): Cassowary {{Information |Description ={{en|1=Blank map of w:Central Goldfields Shire, Victoria, Australia, with the following information shown: * LGA boundaries * Coastline, lakes and rivers * Roads and railways * Urban areas * Parks Geographic limits: * N
Shire of Central Goldfields is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the central part of the state. It covers an area of 1,533 square kilometres (592 sq mi) and, in August 2021 had a population of 13,483. [3] It includes the towns of Bealiba, Carisbrook, Dunolly, Maryborough and Talbot.
Mining activity along Larni Barramal Yaluk (Jim Crow Creek) was photographed in 1857/8 on wetplate collodion by Richard Daintree and Antoine Fauchery for their Sun Pictures of Victoria, [15] a copy of which is preserved in the State Library of Victoria., [16] and traces in the landscape and relics of gold mining activity can still be seen there ...
The Goldstream River (Saanich: sʔə́ləq̕ʷtəɬ) [1] is a river northwest of Victoria on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada . The river's name derives from a small gold rush in its basin during the 1860s, and was originally Gold Stream.
Fossickers in the Nerrena Creek outside Ballarat. The Victorian Gold Discovery Committee wrote in 1854: The discovery of the Victorian Goldfields has converted a remote dependency into a country of worldwide fame; it has attracted a population, extraordinary in number, with unprecedented rapidity; it has enhanced the value of property to an enormous extent; it has made this the richest country ...
From 1856 to 1860 the Legislature of the Colony of Vancouver Island met at Bachelor's Hall at Fort Victoria. [2] From 1860 to 1898 it was housed in the first permanent building at Legislative Hall or Legislative Council Court, a two-storey wooden building along with four other buildings (Land Office, Colonial Office, Supreme Court, and Treasury) known colloquially as "The Birdcages" because of ...