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BALLARAT 27 March - 29 March
Located on the Yarrowee River in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia.
We choose to stop off here to break up the journey from Melbourne to Adelaide. Only about 100 klms from Melbourne made it a great stop off point as we have not been to this city before.
Ballarat is the third largest inland city in Australia.[Just months after Victoria was granted separation from the state of New South Wales, the Victorian gold rush transformed Ballarat from a small sheep station to a major settlement. Gold was discovered on 18 August 1851, and news quickly spread of rich alluvial fields where gold could easily be extracted. [Unlike many other gold boom towns, the Ballarat fields experienced sustained high gold yields for many decades, which can be evidenced to this day in the city's rich architecture.
The city is famous in Australia for the Eureka Rebellion, the only armed rebellion in Australian history.
We stayed at the Sovereign Hotel which was adjacent to the activities at sovereign Hill.
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
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