Victoria was a particularly rich gold mining state. Some of the gold mining towns were:
Australia's southern state of Victoria is rich in goldfields. Gold has been found in the following centres (among others):
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Most of the early goldfields were either in central Victoria or central New South Wales.
They are in Victoria, Australia. The Ballarat goldfields were much like other Australian goldfields (apart from the battle of the Eureka Stockade) and so the links below will give you plenty of information about the goldfields.
The two most popular goldfields in Western Australia were Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie.
The only way to get to Victoria from the Californian goldfields was by ship. The ship was come in to port at Melbourne, in Port Phillip Bay, and from there it was a matter of walking, taking a coach (after 1854) or hitching a ride with someone with a horse and sulky.
The richest goldfields were located in Victoria which is why the Chinese migrated there. Between the years 1851 and 1861 almost 30,000 Chinese migrated to Victoria.
The first goldfields established in Australia were in the Bathurst area, west of Sydney, in 1851. Several months later, in the same year, the discovery was made of the rich goldfields in central Victoria, encompassing Bandigo - Mt Alexander - Ballarat and numerous township within that region.
Sovereign Hill, the re-created goldfields town near Ballarat, Victoria, exists essentially as a tourist attraction which gives people an insight into life on the Australian goldfields in the mid-1800s.
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Alexandrina Victoria
Queen Victoria's names were Alexandrina Victoria.
In order to get to the Victorian goldfields, the diggers could walk, or travel by horseback, or bring a horse and sulky or dray.