Ships did not arrive at the Australian gold rush. The early gold rush locations were all inland several hundred kilometres, and ships could not come inland.
Throughout the 1800s, ships came in to port at the major cities in Australia regularly, and these carried passengers and settlers of all descriptions. It is not known which ship carried the first prospectors who had heard about the possibility of a gold rush.
the chinese arrived at the australian gold fields in 1853
During the Australian gold rush the police were called traps
Edwin Flack was the first Australian male to win a gold medal in Olympics.He won a gold medal in Mens 800m race in Athens on 1896 olympics.
The first large influx of people who were not of British stock arrived in Australia from 1851 onwards, due to the Australian gold rush.
In 1896 there was one Australian competitor and he won 2 gold medals. Teddy Flack was his name.
The gold was discovered in 1848, but many of the prospectors did not arrive until the next year. That is why they were called '49ers.
The first Australian woman to win a gold medal was Fanny Durack, from Sydney, in the 100 meter freestyle at the 1912 Games in Stockholm.
The first Australian to win Gold at the Olympics was Edwin Flack at the first ever modern Olympic games in Athens in 1896.
we had a gold finch, male, showed up first week of April 2013. He was so pretty.
Cathy Freeman
novia Paris
Australian women first competed in the Olympics in 1912. The first Australian woman to win a gold medal was Fanny Durack, from Sydney, in the 100 meter freestyle at the 1912 Games in Stockholm.