Ballarat Gold Fields

Ballarat Gold Fields is in City of Ballarat, Victoria. Ballarat Gold Fields is situated nearby to Lake Otway, as well as near the sports venue Ballarat Real Tennis Club.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sovereign Hill and Ballarat Wildlife Park.

Sovereign Hill

Museum

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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. Sovereign Hill is situated 700 metres west of Ballarat Gold Fields.

Ballarat Wildlife Park

Zoo

The Ballarat Wildlife Park is a zoo in Ballarat, Victoria. Opened in February 1985, it is privately owned by founder Greg Parker, and Julia Leonard and managed by Jared Mulholland. Ballarat Wildlife Park is situated 2 km northeast of Ballarat Gold Fields.

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 Ballarat Gold Fields.

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 4½ km east of Ballarat Gold Fields.

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 Ballarat Gold Fields.

Ballarat Gold Fields

Type: Industry
Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-37.57867° or 37° 34′ 43″ south

Longitude

143.87311° or 143° 52′ 23″ east

Open location code

4RJ5CVCF+G6

OpenStreetMap ID

way 150686313

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=industrial

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