3576 x 5364 px | 30,3 x 45,4 cm | 11,9 x 17,9 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
Juli 2007
Ort:
Castlemain, Victoria, Australia
Weitere Informationen:
Castlemaines a city in Victoria, Australia, in the "Goldfields" region about 120 kilometres northwest by road from Melbourne, and about 40 kilometres from the major provincial centre of Bendigo. It is part of the Shire of Mount Alexander. Castlemaine was established during the gold rush of 1851 and was originally named Forest Creek. The name was later changed to Mount Alexander, but the chief goldfield commissioner, Captain W. Wright, renamed the settlement to honour his uncle, Viscount Castlemaine. The old name is still present in the name of a major Melbourne thoroughfare, Mount Alexander Road, which before the establishment of the Calder Freeway was the route to Castlemaine.In September, 1851, three shepherds and a bullock driver discovered gold in Specimen Gully, about 5 km NE of present-day Castlemaine. Within a month the alluvial bed of Forest Creek was being worked with 8, 000 miners on the field by the end of the year and 25, 000 by March 1852.
