Australia
Victoria
City of Ballarat

Golden Point

Golden Point is a suburb of , Victoria, located south-east of the CBD. It is the oldest settlement in Greater Ballarat. Gold was discovered at Poverty Point on 21 August 1851 by John Dunlop and James Regan, sparking the Ballarat gold rush.
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  • Type: Suburb with 2,210 residents
  • Description: suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
  • Also known as: “Golden Point, Ballarat , Victoria, Australia”, “Golden Point, Victoria”, and “Golden Point, Victoria, Australia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sovereign Hill and Art Gallery of Ballarat.

Museum
Photo: Mike Switzerland, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an open-air museum in Golden Point, a suburb of , Victoria, Australia. depicts Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold there in 1851 and has become a nationally acclaimed tourist attraction.

Museum
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The 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.

Public building
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is a public building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ballarat and Warrenheip.

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is a city about 110 km north-west of in the region of . 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.

Suburb
is a suburb of , Victoria, on the eastern rural-urban fringe named after nearby . At the 2021 census, had a population of 721. is situated 5 km east of Golden Point.

Town
is a town 11 km from in Victoria, . The town is on the Midland Highway, south of Ballarat on the road to . was proclaimed a town on 27 June 1851 on the same day as Winchelsea, Portarlington, Longwood, Avenel, Cavendish, Euroa and Gisborne. is situated 9 km south of Golden Point.

Golden Point

Latitude
-37.57353° or 37° 34′ 25″ south
Longitude
143.86506° or 143° 51′ 54″ east
Population
2,210
Elevation
433 metres (1,421 feet)
Open location code
4RJ5CVG8+H2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2580428061
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
8015184
Wiki­data ID
Q5579715
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Golden Point” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Golden Point”
  • Chinese: “戈尔登波恩特”
  • Persian: “گولدن پوینت، ویکتوریا”
  • Swedish: “Golden Point (del av en befolkad plats)”
  • Swedish: “Golden Point”

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