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 and has become a nationally acclaimed tourist attraction.Photo: Mike Switzerland, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ballarat Town Hall and Ballarat Trades Hall.
Ballarat Trades Hall
Public building
Photo: Peterdownunder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ballarat Trades Hall is a public building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballarat and Warrenheip.
Ballarat
Photo: Tiimta, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ballarat is a city about 110 km north-west of Melbourne in the Goldfields region of Victoria. Ballarat is most noted as a former goldmining town with excellent examples of Australian colonial architecture, and as the site of the famous miners' revolt at the Eureka Stockade in 1854.
Warrenheip
Suburb
Warrenheip is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia on the eastern rural-urban fringe named after nearby Mount Warrenheip. At the 2021 census, Warrenheip had a population of 721.
Buninyong
Town
Buninyong is a town 11 km from Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. The town is on the Midland Highway, south of Ballarat on the road to Geelong. Buninyong was proclaimed a town on 27 June 1851 on the same day as Winchelsea, Portarlington, Longwood, Avenel, Cavendish, Euroa and Gisborne. Buninyong is situated 8 km south of Sovereign Hill.
Sovereign Hill
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 423 metres
- Description: open-air museum recreating an 1850s gold mining township in Golden Point, a suburb of Ballarat, Australia
- Categories: mining community, open-air museum, and landform
- Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.57834° or 37° 34′ 42″ southLongitude
143.86457° or 143° 51′ 53″ eastElevation
423 metres (1,388 feet)Open location code
4RJ5CVC7+MROpenStreetMap ID
node 3008903560OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Sovereign Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sovereign Hill”
- Dutch: “Sovereign Hill”
- German: “Sovereign Hill”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sovereign Hill”
- Norwegian: “Sovereign Hill”
- Swedish: “Sovereign Hill”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sovereign Hill Lookout and Empire Bowling Saloon.
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