Black Hill
Black Hill is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia in the northeast of the city. It is named after the major landmark, Black Hill, on which there was extensive and highly profitable open-cut gold mining from the early 1850s during the Victoria gold rush.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 2,110 residents
- Description: suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
- Also known as: “Black Hill, Victoria” and “Black Hill, Victoria, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Art Gallery of Ballarat and Eastern Oval.
Art Gallery of Ballarat
Museum
Photo: Biatch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Art Gallery of Ballarat is the oldest regional art gallery in Australia. It was established in 1884 as the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery by a company of interested citizens led by James Oddie.
Eastern Oval
Pitch
Eastern Oval is a cricket and Australian rules football ground in the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The first recorded match on the ground in 1862 when Ballarat played HH Stephenson's XI.
Ballarat
Railway station
Ballarat railway station is a regional railway station located on the Ararat and Mildura railway lines. It serves the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, and opened on 11 April 1862 as Ballarat West.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballarat and Warrenheip.
Ballarat
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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. Warrenheip is situated 5 km southeast of Black Hill.
Dunnstown
Village
Dunnstown is a town in Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Shire of Moorabool, 108 kilometres west of the state capital, Melbourne on the flats below Mount Warrenheip and approximately 12 kilometres east of Ballarat. Dunnstown is situated 9 km southeast of Black Hill.
Black Hill
- Category: locality
- Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.55011° or 37° 33′ 0″ southLongitude
143.87438° or 143° 52′ 28″ eastPopulation
2,110Elevation
453 metres (1,486 feet)Open location code
4RJ5CVXF+XQOpenStreetMap ID
node 953976260OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2175551Wikidata ID
Q4920932
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Black Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Black Hill”
- Chinese: “布莱克希尔”
- Dutch: “Black Hill, Victoria”
- Malagasy: “Black Hill”
- Persian: “بلکهیل، ویکتوریا”
- Swedish: “Black Hill”
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Notable Places Nearby
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