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Sovereign Hill is an open-air museum in Golden Point, a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Sovereign Hill depicts Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold there in 1851 and has become a nationally acclaimed tourist attraction. [ 1 ]
Sovereign Hill is an open site set to imitate the local area during and after the initial Gold Rush that overtook Ballarat, Victoria, Australia in the mid 1800s. Open since 1970, the site spans across almost 15 hectares of land, and many facilities are included in the complex; such as bars, café's and museums. [ 18 ]
Ballarat's best-known tourist destination, Sovereign Hill, was opened in November 1970 as an open-air museum set in the gold rush period. Since 1992, in commemoration of the Eureka Stockade, Sovereign Hill has featured a 90-minute son et lumière "Blood Under the Southern Cross", a sound and light show attraction played under the night skies ...
Map of Papa Stour, showing Forewick Holm to the southeast. Forvik's founder, Stuart Hill, is a native of Essex who was shipwrecked in Shetland in 2001 during a failed attempt to circumnavigate the British Isles, earning him the nickname "Captain Calamity". [8] [9] He subsequently settled in Shetland and became an advocate for the islands ...
The Welcome Nugget was a large gold nugget, weighing 2,217 troy ounces 16 pennyweight. (68.98 kg), that was discovered by a group of twenty-two Cornish miners at the Red Hill Mining Company site at Bakery Hill (near the present intersection of Mair and Humffray Street) in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, on 9 June 1858.
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Replica horse-powered Chilean Mill at Sovereign Hill open-air museum in Ballarat.. The Chilean mill was a machine used on gold fields in an early period of gold mining.The machine was composed of two rotating wheels that would revolve over a pan filled with gold-bearing rocks.
Old Sydney Town was an Australian open-air museum and theme park which operated from 1975 until 2003 in Somersby on the New South Wales Central Coast.Once a living tribute to the early years of Sydney's colonial settlement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it was complete with historical reenactments and authentic construction methods.