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The greatest movement of people in Australia's history was in the period 1851 to 1861 during the gold rushes to the Eastern states when the recorded population of Australia rose by 730,484 from 437,665 in 1851 to 1,168,149 in 1861, [32] as against an increase of 20% of this amount for Western Australia in the period 1891 to 1901, a 137,834 ...
Prospector Charles Hall and others found alluvial gold in the eastern Kimberly region in 1885. The find created the first gold rush in Western Australia. In terms of gold yield, the rush was not particularly successful, but was the first significant find in the northern and western parts of Australia. It was nearly 40 years after the Victorian ...
By the middle of the 1850s, 40% of the world's gold was produced in Australia. [30] Australia's population changed dramatically as a result of the gold rushes: in 1851 the population was 437,655 and a decade later it was 1,151,957; the rapid growth was predominantly a result of the "new chums" (recent immigrants from the United Kingdom and ...
The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia, approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s. It led to a period of extreme prosperity for the Australian colony and an influx of population growth and financial capital for Melbourne , which was dubbed " Marvellous Melbourne " as a result of the procurement of wealth.
Holtermann with 235 kg gold specimen from Hill End, NSW. New South Wales experienced the first gold rush in Australia, a period generally accepted to lie between 1851 and 1880. This period in the history of New South Wales resulted in a rapid growth in the population and significant boost to the economy of the colony of New South Wales
Canoona is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. [2] It was the site of the first North Australian gold rush. [3] In the 2021 census, Canoona had a population of 90 people. [1]
The gold rushes caused a huge influx of people from overseas, including from many non-British sources. In the 1850s Victoria was Australia's gold mining centre, its population increasing from 76,000 in 1851 to 540,000 in 1861. Australia's total population more than tripled from 430,000 in 1851 to 1.7 million in 1871. [9]
More importantly, the increase in population in the decades following the gold rush stimulated demand for housing, consumer goods, services and urban infrastructure. [29] By the 1880s half the Australian population lived in towns, making Australia more urbanised than the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. [30]