Gold Commissioner’s Camp

Gold Commissioner’s Camp is a campsite in City of Ballarat, Victoria. Gold Commissioner’s Camp is situated nearby to the historic site One Eye Gully, as well as near the Buddhist temple Chinese Temple.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sovereign Hill and Art Gallery of Ballarat.

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 380 metres south of Gold Commissioner’s Camp.

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. Art Gallery of Ballarat is situated 2 km north of Gold Commissioner’s Camp.

Ballarat

Railway station

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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. Ballarat is situated 2 km north of Gold Commissioner’s Camp.

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 east of Gold Commissioner’s Camp.

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 Gold Commissioner’s Camp.

Gold Commissioner’s Camp

Type: Campsite
Categories: tourism and camping
Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-37.57565° or 37° 34′ 32″ south

Longitude

143.86629° or 143° 51′ 59″ east

Open location code

4RJ5CVF8+PG

OpenStreetMap ID

way 295214462

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=camp_site

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