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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mike Switzerland, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ballarat East Fire Station and Dana Street Primary School.
Ballarat East Fire Station
Fire station
Photo: Peterdownunder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Ballarat East Fire Station, in Ballarat East, Victoria, Australia is the oldest continually operating fire station in the Southern Hemisphere. The tower was designed by local architect Henry Caselli and was built in 1864 by William Cowland, a builder and fire brigade volunteer. Ballarat East Fire Station is situated 1½ km north of Sovereign Hill.
Dana Street Primary School
School
Photo: Mattinbgn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dana Street Primary School is situated 2 km northwest of Sovereign Hill.
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. Warrenheip is situated 5 km east of Sovereign Hill.
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: Museum
- Description: open-air museum recreating an 1850s gold mining township in Golden Point, a suburb of Ballarat, Australia
- Categories: mining community, open-air museum, tourism, recreation area, and tourist attraction
- Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.57897° or 37° 34′ 44″ southLongitude
143.86514° or 143° 51′ 55″ eastOperator
Sovereign Hill Museums AssociationOpen location code
4RJ5CVC8+C3OpenStreetMap ID
way 128838907OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=leisureOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q7571604
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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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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sovereign Hill Lookout and Sovereign Hill.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sovereign Hill”. Photo: Mike Switzerland, CC BY-SA 3.0.