the great australian gold rush

  • 1851 summer hill creek

    1851 summer hill creek
    summer hill creek is were edward hargraves discoverd the first gold ever discoverd in australia he later named it opher.
  • bathurst 1851

    gold was discoved in bathurst soon after the first discovery at summer hill creek.
  • bendigo 1851

    bendigo 1851
    two women were spoted with ther skirts hitched up knee deep in clay filling cans with gold.
  • ballarat 1851

    ballarat 1851
    james reagon and jhon dunlop camped north of buningong on a bend of a creek.
  • eaglehawk 1852

    eaglehawk 1852
    the news of gold at eaglehawk wipstick and myer`s flat quikley emted the beachworth goldfeilds.
  • onkaparinga

    onkaparinga
    the coloneal secretary and sevral mountain police watched as w. chaman pan for gold at onkaparinga.
  • robe

    robe was not the site of any gold discovery but a port for thousands of chinese to land.
  • lambing flat 1860

    lambing flat 1860
    lambing flat was a brutal race riot in 1861. European people were jelous of the chinese people so they attacked.
  • stringers creek

    stringers creek
    EX-convict edward stringer had his friends william grifiths and mc gregor found the first gold that started the walallha diggings
  • beaconfeild

    beaconfeild
    some beileve that gold was first dicoversd in beaconfeild in 1847 but it wasnt. but it wasnt until 1869 wene gold was panned.
  • 1871

    1871
    abarigional stockman jupiter mosman was looking for a stray hourse wene hediscoverd gold nuggets on the burdekin river flats on christmas day.
  • palmer river

    palmer river
    william han discoverd gold in palmer river.
  • darwin

    gold was discoved in the northen territory as early as 1865 but the rush to darwin wasnt until1871.
  • hill end

    hill end
    lagest specimen of reef gold ever found was underneath at the star of hope mine.
  • coolgardie

    Wellesy bayley road into town of southern cross with 554 ounces of gold.
  • kalgorie

    patrick hannan found gold in kalgoorie on june 10 1893.